Editorial
Focusing on social entrepreneurs
In looking at the future of social entrepreneurship, one challenge has been to focus on the needs of social entrepreneurs specifically rather than the social sector more generally. Is this even realistic? If social entrepreneurs are a particular kind of individual, it seems likely we are looking at a continuum. Out of the huge pool of organizations working in the social sector worldwide, both non-profit and for-profit, some will be led by people who are undoubtedly social entrepreneurs – those meeting the criteria pioneered by Ashoka – and some will be run in a fairly entrepreneurial way (ie in a …