What we discovered was that there were a few organizations focused on early stage social entrepreneurs, but no one who was investing in social entrepreneurs at the mezzanine stage, where the entrepreneurs' models had been sufficiently proven and poised to scale their impact significantly.
Traditional models of technology transfer assume that scientists prefer either to 'go it alone' and become entrepreneurs (the inventor entrepreneur model) or to let go of their technologies to people interested in their commercialization (the surrogate entrepreneur model).
The policy entrepreneur model on policy innovation is based on three questions: who are policy entrepreneurs, which factors influence policy entrepreneurs involved in policy innovation, and how do policy entrepreneurs put innovative ideas into practice.
This paper develops a theoretical model based on the Footloose Entrepreneur Model of the New Economic Geography in which intermediate producer services play an essential role in characterizing the industrial landscape.
In between hands-off regulator and dictator is a Public Entrepreneur model characteristic, for example of the USA, going well beyond regulation, but yet not attempting to monopolize direction.
While more traditional charity models will always remain the only viable solution in certain sectors and circumstances, the social entrepreneur model of employing business methods and looking at financial self-sustainability is setting a standard for the next decade of international development.
On view, for example, is the Lily Impeller, a flowing hunk of stainless steel that Jayden D. Harman, an inventor and entrepreneur, modeled on the Fibonacci spiral.
Vembu can become the archetype on which young Indian entrepreneurs can model themselves.
It won't hurt that the steering committee for the iDEA scheme includes Will.I.Am, entrepreneur and model Lily Cole and Michael Acton Smith, founder of the globally successful Moshi Monsters game.
Disciples of the F-Factor Diet include Dylan Lauren, daughter of Ralph and a candy entrepreneur; the model and actress Molly Sims and Donny Deutschh, the eyeglasses-wielding advertising mogul who credits Ms. Zuckerbrot with helping him lose 20 pounds.
