%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2014 %T Does Social Innovation Require Social Entrepreneurship? %A Asceline Groot %A Ben Dankbaar %K entrepreneurship %K institutional change %K Schumpeter %K social change %K social entrepreneurship %K social innovation %K sustainability %X Social innovation is now considered an important element in the search for solutions to pressing social problems. Inspired by Schumpeter’s conceptualization of innovation, "social" entrepreneurship is thought to contribute to "social" innovation in more or less the same way that "normal" entrepreneurship consists of the introduction of "normal" innovations. In the literature as well as in practice, the definition of concepts such as social innovation and social entrepreneurship has led to considerable confusion. We aim to bring clarity to the debate, arguing that every entrepreneurial action results in some measure of intended or unintended social innovation, regardless of whether the entrepreneurs in question are considered or consider themselves "social" or not. We test our insights in an investigation of 20 social enterprises that have a commercial business model. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 4 %P 17-26 %8 12/2014 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/854 %N 12 %1 ASN Bank Asceline Groot is Senior Communications Officer at ASN Bank, a Dutch consumer bank that focuses on sustainable investments. She is responsible for the online community of ASN Bank "Voor de Wereld van Morgen| (For the World of Tomorrow). She is also a part-time PhD candidate at the Institute of Management Research of the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her research is concerned with the effects of social entrepreneurs on society. She is the author of the books Het Nieuwe Groen (The New Green) and Dromen voor Altijd (Dreams for Ever). %2 Radboud University Nijmegen Ben Dankbaar is Emeritus Professor of Innovation Management at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He is currently a part-time professor at the Automotive Institute of the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and he is partner in InnoTeP (Innovation in Theory and Practice). He studied social sciences and economics at the University of Amsterdam and has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maastricht in The Netherlands. Ben Dankbaar has published widely on issues of technical change, work organization, innovation management, and industrial policy. He is also an expert on developments in the automobile industry. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/854