SEIN - a startup journal

Tomorrow we meet with Innocentive to continue our dialog from October 22, 2009 to design a program where the Innocentive open innovation platform can be specially tuned and sponsored to suit the needs of the Social Enterprise.

I am calling it The Social Enterprise Innovation Network, and will use this journal to keep track of the process.

There are a number potential collaborators for SEIN that have emerged over the past 10 years in Silicon Valley - for example: The Skoll Foundation Connecting and Celebrating Social Entrepreneurs | Skoll Foundation and its Social Edge

“The Social Entrepreneur API will provide an easier way for people to find, invest in, and support social entrepreneurs, as well as serve as a resource for social entrepreneurs to connect with each other and partner for greater impact.”

STanford University's Graduate School of Business has been a leader in developing academic and student interest in Social Entrepreneurship for over a decade with a dedicated academic curriculum, events and a continuing podcast program on The Conversations Network Research: News: Stanford GSB This link features a short video on Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford.

The global membership organization YPO with over 27,000 CEOs has a dedicated program for Social Entrepreneurship called SEN


In this recent post, FutureLab predicts the growing importance of Social Enterprises and the viral impact of Social Technologies in driving their growth:

"We see more and more development of a mixed economy of companies coming together to further progress on social, economic & environmental well being. Expect to see plenty of innovation where Social Technologies meet Social Enterprises".

Social Enterprises Will Become the Next Big Global Brands. But Not All Social Enterprises Are the Same | Futurelab – An international marketing strategy consultancy