Definition from hubcap
“Social entrepreneurs are individuals who use entrepreneurial principles to initiate or create innovative programs, products, or processes and to build an organization that can bring the innovation to market. Just as a business entrepreneur might create an entirely new industry, a social entrepreneur finds new solutions to social problems and then implements them on a large scale.”
Going further
I've curated 400+ definitions just like this one in a tiny dictionary. In this glossary you can easily access, search and understand 400+ terms that service designers and other innovators use.