2005 Volume 26 Pages 135-142
The purpose of this paper is to establish the concept of Social Innavation Cluster which is composed of socially responsible businesses, nonprofits, universities, network organizations and foundations in order to creat new social and environmental value. Social Innovation Cluster in Bay Area has created unique social business models and they has had a major effect on social enterprise movement in the world. Especially this paper focuses on Social Venture Network. SVN is a menbership organization composed of socially progressive entrepreneurs, with a sprinkling of nonprofit participants, organized to promote the idea that business can and should be a vehicle for social change. SVN has contributed to the formation of Social Innovation Cluster in Bay Area.The formation of Social Innovation Cluster leads to the creation of new social and environmental standards or orders in the market society.
