Being a relatively new concept, evolved and compiled from the concepts of businesspeople, social change, and innovation, Social Entrepreneurship is difficult to properly define and pinpoint. David Bornstein, in his blog post, The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur, addresses not only the misconception many people hold about social entrepreneurs, but also explores who these social entrepreneurs are and how they function.

Many people tend to think of social entrepreneurs simply as businesspeople who address problems, while Bornstein identifies them as any citizen who strives for progress and change- “to address problems more successfully than the past”.

Agreeing with much of what Bornstein has to say, the idea that social entrepreneurs go beyond the business and political world, into the everyday lives of any and all citizens is valid. Such a new movement must strike a different path than the others, and push past the typical boundaries of entrepreneurship. Being that entrepreneurship has connotations of innovation, the social aspect, to me, not only indicates that the goal is to impact communities, but that it is the raw community itself making the change.