Entredonneur

= concept meaning 'giving to the in between', proposed to balance the concept of Entrepreneur which means 'taking from in between' and has therefore a predatory significance

Description

"The entredonneur is a 'creative giver'

• My term 'entredonneur' (Wood, 1990) was not intended as a direct criticism of 'enterprise' itself
• Nevertheless, offers an invaluable practical counterpoint to it
• The most extreme idea of 'taking' is as unlikely as an extreme idea of pure 'giving'
• However, by placing the two at opposite ends of a continuum we are better able to map the transition from one to the other
• It may help us to identify how business, and other modes of enterprise, might be re-envisioned
• It implies a less wasteful mode of living within an (inevitable) solar economy
• In theory, at the macro level, tendencies to 'pure greed' may balance the will to 'pure altruism'
• With better mapping techniques we might be able to replace this struggle with a reciprocal form of altruism."

(http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=EntreDonneur)

Original source from Wood, J., (1990), "COMMENT: The Socially Responsible Designer", Design Magazine, July 1990

More Information

• The Wisdom of Nature = The Nature of Wisdom (PDF)
• possible alternative, mentioned by Neil Cummings here at http://culturesofresilience.org/communities-of-evaluation/: Donorpreneurs‎