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Role of Diversity in Triggering Social Innovations: Analysis of Divergent backgrounds of Social Entrepreneurs in India in Stimulating Social Innovations in the Field of Education
- Abstract
Social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes social problems and uses the entrepreneurial abilities and principles to organize, create and manage ventures in order to bring out social change. Social innovations can be defined as creating, developing, adopting and integrating new ideas or new practices or concept to resolve existing socio-economic, cultural or ecological problems. Diversity plays a very important role in building creative thinking and stimulating innovative ideas. This paper tries to study the role of diversity in the personal attributes of the social entrepreneurs in building social entrepreneurial abilities and acting as stimulants to bring out social innovations.