Social Entrepreneurship :Creating Both Private Value and Social Value

The term "Entrepreneur" can be traced back the French economics literature of the seventeenth century, where it came to be used to identify venturesome individuals who stimulated economic progress by finding new and better ways of doing things.

"shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher

productivity and greater yield"

Source: http://www.microfinancegateway.org/gm/document-1.9.24285/08.pdf