Article in Nonprofit Quarterly discusses the interesting dynamic between the concepts of social entrepreneurship and social innovation. An excerpt:

The phrase “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else,” is known in the high-tech industry as “Joy’s Law.” It articulates “the essential knowledge problem that many enterprises face today—that is, that in any given sphere of activity, most of the pertinent knowledge will reside outside the boundaries of any one organization, and the central challenge for those charged with the innovation mission is to find ways to access that knowledge.”1

In a political, social, and economic environment that is in enormous flux, it is right and necessary to look for new ways to address social problems. When the context shifts this decisively in so many ways, it creates dynamic complexity, and we have to remain nimble and intellectually curious enough to make wise choices about the structure, content, and direction of our work. The fields of health, housing, education, and senior care—to name a few—are being challenged by profound external factors. And that very disruption provides burning platforms all around us and opportunities to organize ourselves and our work differently—in other words, to innovate.

Read the full article.