Beyond the “ivory tower”. Comparing academic and non-academic knowledge on social entrepreneurship

The increasing relevance of societal challenges has recently brought social entrepreneurship to the fore due its capacity leverage entrepreneurial processes achieve value while ensuring profits. In this study, we apply an experimental research method analyse concept comprehensively. More specifically, develop bibliometric analysis and web crawling techniques gather information related from Scopus Wikipedia. We conduct a comparative network entrepreneurship’s conceptual structure at academic non-academic levels. This been performed considering scientific articles’ keywords Wikipedia webpages’ co-occurrences, enabling us identify four different thematic clusters in both cases. Moreover, plotting centrality density each cluster on bi-dimensional matrix, have sketched strategic diagram provided evolution topic, based level interaction among clusters, degree cohesion cluster. paper represents one first attempts literature shed light boundaries topic open-source knowledge database. Our results reveal similarities discrepancies between those two sources knowledge, outline avenues for future studies intersection domains digital transformation, performance measurement, ecosystems, ethics. also call further conceptualisation face complexity that characterises grand challenges.