The following article on civic entrepreneurs is based on an article in a US online magazine produced at the University of Wisconsin. Civic entrepreneurs are people who help communities collaborate, so they can develop and organise their economic assets and build effective relationships across the public, private, and civil sectors. Entrepreneurs forge the ties that bind economy and community for their mutual benefit, and provide the continuity needed to work on tough issues over the long haul.
Entrepreneurs make changes.
Joseph Schumpeter, an economist, saw the function of the entrepreneur as reforming or revolutionising the established patterns of production. In doing this, the entrepreneur inevitably meets resistance. Like the business entrepreneur, the civic entrepreneur operates in a time of dramatic change, sees opportunity, and mobilises others in the community to work toward their collective well being. Five Traits Civic entrepreneurs can come from business or government, from education, or from other community sectors. They come from many segments of society and all walks of life.