Abstract

How social entrepreneurship can become social innovation has been little studied, even less in the rural context. This document poses that social entrepreneurship generate different types of capital as they integrate into a social network, and it is that social capital that allows it to become a successful social innovation. Applying a social capital approach to two social enterprises (or social entrepreneurship) study cases, from Colombian rural communities victims of armed conflict, shows how social enterprises integrated into social networks achieve two significant outcomes. On one side, generate interactive and collective learning and institutional change, and on other, favour determinants of social innovation, thus incrementing and reconfiguring social entrepreneurs’ capabilities leading to social innovation.

摘要

社会企业家精神如何成为社会创新的研究很少，在农村背景下更是如此。该文件提出，社会创业在融入社会网络时会产生不同类型的资本，正是这种社会资本使其成为成功的社会创新。将社会资本方法应用于来自哥伦比亚农村社区武装冲突受害者的两个社会企业（或社会企业家精神）研究案例，展示了社会企业如何融入社会网络取得两个重要成果。一方面，产生互动和集体学习和制度变革，另一方面，有利于社会创新的决定因素，从而增加和重新配置社会企业家导致社会创新的能力。