ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the future opportunities for social entrepreneurs, including features, areas, and sectors where innovative solutions for systemic change and impact are needed. The future for social entrepreneurship is replete with possibilities and innovations to solve many of society's most intractable problems. Tracey and Phillips have identified three key challenges inherent in social entrepreneurship: managing accountability, managing the double bottom line, and managing identity. Social entrepreneurs whose environments are typically resource-constrained and often present new challenges without providing new resources tend to engage in bricolage behavior. The degree to which social entrepreneurs engage in bricolage behavior may determine their success in developing catalytic innovations for the marketplace. Bricolage notions of making do and using whatever is on hand link with a fundamental social shift toward developing smart, sustainable projects that are integral to social change.
