Thursday, May 5, 2011

Social entrepreneur

What is entrepreneur? According to the definitions entrepreneur are people who do add value to the goods or services through the transformation, creativity, innovation and sensitivity to the surrounding environment, so that with the entrepreneur is a good or service more useful (Prof. Raymond Kao, Nanyang Business School, Singapore 1999 ), in daily life - the day entrepreneur is needed to advance the economy of a country, singapore is such a small country can progress in the economic field since the majority of communities are an entrepreneur, how to become an entrepreneur?

While the notion of social entrepreneurs are people who do add value to a product and services, entrepreneur but also pay attention to her surroundings, social.

Examples of the Jaipur Foot. In India there are 5.5 million people who amputated and that number increases each year about 25 thousand people. The majority of them are poor and unable to pay for medical services. When the industry prosthesis (artificial limb) is so complicated and expensive, Jaipur Food to find the technology to suit the lifestyle of the poor. If the cost of an artificial leg in the U.S. worth U.S. $ 8 thousand, while the Jaipur Foot artificial leg worth U.S. $ 30. innovation is of course helped a lot of people 'disabled' in India to be able to keep working, this is what the "necessary, not only how we can sell products / services with high prices, but also how we can help the man who is around us to keep get a decent living, social entrepreneur spirit is needed, especially in the area - developed regions, where the problem of poverty remains a major problem in the economy.

To become a social entrepreneur "necessary" a breakthrough or innovation and a strong desire from the entrepreneur to be an impact on the social life of society, a social entrepreneur will not deny that their success comes from a struggle of poverty.

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