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The French micro‐angels are social investors interested in helping micro‐enterprises survive.

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The diffusion of social innovation requires overcoming institutional resilience and ignorance of innovation. The forces of the marketing and development work of the organization managers may be unable to overcome the strength of the institutional framework. These institution brakes include soft norms such as values, ideology, and psychology, as well as hard norms such as regulations. Spurts in the diffusion of the innovation require exogenous crises to overcome the friction.

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