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RISE The Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) is a research project at Columbia Business School whose mission is to study and disseminate knowledge about the markets, metrics and management of for-profit and nonprofit social enterprise and social venturing. RISE is jointly sponsored and supported within Columbia Business School by the Social Enterprise Program and the Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, and externally by foundations, investment funds, and individual contributions.
INC organizes production networks that design, prototype, launch, and scale place-based social innovations. INC defines a place-based social innovation as a new product, process, service, enterprise, or system that creates significant measurable improvements in the performance of any given community system. A social innovation should only be considered successful when it is both financially sustainable and scalable, meaning it has a predictable flow of revenue and is not heavily dependent on conditions in a particular context.