social entrepreneurship

The more I work on responsible research and innovation, the more I encounter the same paradox: we keep asking innovators to become more responsible while organizing innovation systems in ways that make it increasingly difficult for them to choose their path.

If social entrepreneurship remains largely absent from the places where technologies are shaped, it is tempting to see this as a gap to fill: a matter of awareness, incentives, or better collaboration. This reading is convenient. It is also misleading.

How many social enterprises are born in laboratories? How many social enterprises are technology leaders? And why is it crucial to ask these questions nowadays?