Assignment1

Redesigning the collection of heat and energy. The designs are utilizing existing products and applying them in an innovative and efficient way in small villages like Omdo.




The Meaning of “Social Entrepreneurship”
(Page 3, “In particular, markets do not do a good job of valuing social improvements , public goods and harms ,and benefits for people who cannot afford to pay… As a result, it is much harder to determine whether a social entrepreneur is creating sufficient social value to justify the resources used in creating that value”.)
Improvement, whether it is small or simple, usually leads to an expensive cost. Like this paragraph, it makes me question whether social entrepreneurship benefits the people and the community. The idea of social entrepreneurship is to help a community that is in need, but if the investment is large, how can the community afford it? I somewhat agree that markets do not work for social entrepreneurs.

Reshaping Social Entrepreneurship
(Page 49, “…could they have made a bigger difference?”)
If success is measured by improvement or difference, I feel that it depends on the measure of the short-term goal and the long-term goal. I feel that, most of the time, the difference/ change in social entrepreneurship affects short-term goals and the short-term goal can be the next step to improve the long-term goal.

Social Entrepreneurship: The case for definition
“Boundaries of Social Entrepreneurship”- I agree that boundaries should be identified to achieve success. The organization / creator who identified the social problem should identify the boundary in improvement. If not, the value and meaning of social entrepreneurship would be lost.