The conceptual basis of the development of social entrepreneurship and nowadays challenges

. Social problems can accumulate for years in various areas of our life: education, medicine, environmental protection. An effective way is to create organizations that independently generate income to solve social problems based on innovative approaches and solutions. The combination of a business approach and a social component form the concept of social entrepreneurship. The variety of definitions is due to the fact that entrepreneurship, as a type of activity, is based on various scientific disciplines: economics, sociology, business, anthropology, ethics, psychology. The work provides a critical analysis of the definition of the concept of "social entrepreneurship", the definition of a social enterprise