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Introduction

Nowadays, entrepreneurs are increasing day to day in the globalized world. The term of "entrepreneurship" which is subordinate to entrepreneurs whose aim are creating and settling their own business and focus on the nature, environment and the risks of new venture formation and technology commercialization for reaching to and achieving their purpose. In addition to the characteristic of entrepreneurs, it is clear that they are to be found in every group of people and no matter what position are they in. Furthermore, there is another type of entrepreneur which is known as a social entrepreneurs, who are objective to contribute to improving society consequently, they carry big importance for the society which it's advantage can lead to our lives. As we said before social entrepreneur have very crucial role in public lives, because of finding neoteric solutions to the society's most important difficulties.Florence Nightingale

who is the one of the well known and also the one who is familiar with The Lady with the Lamp was a advance of contemporary nursing and noted statistician. That could be a good reason to her to became an entrepreneur, that is why she could be given as a perfect instance for a social entrepreneur. Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof who is also known as the Bob Geldof, is an another famous social entrepreneur and at the same time social capital , singer, songwriter, actor and takes place in political activities. As we mentioned before, Bob Geldof is a successful singer and he organizes concerts with the aim of aid to the poor countries with the money which collects from his concerts. It proves that, he deserves to be known as a good social entrepreneur with the helps which he did and still doing for the humanity. He has ability intend to change world opinion. Third and last big social entrepreneur which we are going to describe is a Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. He was a revolutionary statesman, the founder of the Republic of Turkey and it's first President. Further, with the new revolutions which are lead to Turkish people lives what are known as Ataturk Reforms, he done enough to become a successful social entrepreneur.

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First of all, to enlighten the exact meaning of terms "entrepreneur" and "entrepreneurship" we could give detailed background and could make it clear. The origin of the word "entrepreneur" comes from French. An entrepreneur comes in many various size and images and they do not look like each other too. An entrepreneur is a person who takes monetary hazard and accepts the responsibility of new financial ventures and organizes, manages any enterprise. They make things real. Entrepreneur has always new ideas and realizes the opportunities before the everyone else and commercializes it. Entrepreneurs begin from bring into something that was not exist before. Real entrepreneurs create as well as modify. Most of the people will support that the spirit of entrepreneurship is the driving effect in the growth of the global world economy. The entrepreneurship is the function to begin or improving new products or services. Entrepreneurship is a arduous task as a plurality of unsuccessful new businesses. Entrepreneurial various actions are basically different depending on the kind of organisation that is being to begin. As well as we mentioned above, there are various types of entrepreneurs with diverse aids for society. Social entrepreneur is only a one type of entrepreneur, they exist for humanity answers the society's questions is very important for social entrepreneur. Social entrepreneur who is recognizes a communal matter and provide new techniques for wide-scale change. "Social capital is the ability of the people to work together for common purposes in groups and organizations." said by Fukuyama. Social capital term has become popular by Florence Nightingale utilities nevertheless she become social entrepreneur. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy on 12 May 1820 one year later from her sister Parthenope. Her family was the owner of the lots of lands and they were rich. They were living at Lea Hurst in Derbyshire in the summer months which is now converted into retirement home, rest of the year moving to Embley in Hampshire is now a school .Her father Willam Nightingale who is educated at the Cambridge University undertook his daughters education and he taught to Florence Greek, Italian, French, German, history, maths and philosophy. When she was seventeen her family was expecting good marriage but she had sentiment to something else. She felt like one who is chosen by God and called her to do work. She began to interest in the social issue of the date beside nursing, but her parents were not agree with her, because in that period of the century nursing was not considerable occupation. Despite her family's persistent behaviour in 1851 by going to Kaiserwerth in Germany for three months training, she took her first step into nursing. Since that time she wanted to bring something into society it showed that she hath social entrepreneur spirit. In March 1854 with the beginning of Crimean War, Sidney Herbert Minister of the war assign her to lead thirty-eight nurses who were voluntary for looking after wounded British soldiers in Turkey. Her leadership speciality which we see while leading the nursing team is one of the important characteristics of the social entrepreneurs. By doing her best, she succeed to decrease the incidence of death in Scutari. She undertook responsibility of soldiers, tried to make connection between soldiers and their families by writing letters and furthermore she sent soldier's salary to their families. What she done here was, seeing the problems and seek about it, take responsibility and any possible risk, and then organize how to solve the matter and finally solve it without expecting any benefit which is a definition of the social entrepreneur. Right after the Crimean War, she returned back to England but as a heroine. Although the end of the Crimean War, she was still worrying about the mortality rate due to lack of hygiene and deficient feeding. In terms of that, Florence started to explore the harms of the war and effective reasons to the health of British Army before the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army do. With this behaviour, Florence Nightingale "the Lady-in-Chief"become the initiator of the Royal Commission which was a sort of sovereign campaign to discuss and give suggestions. Her success was coming from the talent of working compatible with others and also from the ability to motivate them. All these criterions were sufficient to make her prosperous and unforgettable social capital.Also, Florence deserved to be a good social

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