Social entrepreneurship is a phenomenon that has recently attracted the attention of scholars. It has been noted that social entrepreneurs develop skills that allow them to successfully cope with current challenges in both social and business settings. Given that attention to dual objectives requires greater focus and awareness, we suggest that mindfulness is an important characteristic of social entrepreneurship intention, along with entrepreneurial training and volunteering experience. This paper explores these relationships through a pilot study with 184 online surveys. The results show that there are positive relationships between mindfulness and entrepreneurship training and social entrepreneurship intention.

The study of social entrepreneurship has shown increased development recently particularly emphasising the conceptual and qualitative perspectives, resulting in literature that shows a gap in the lack of a measurement instrument to assess this phenomenon. This uncovers an opportunity to develop a scale to measure the main characteristic and challenge of social entrepreneurship, which is the management of the duality of objectives presented in meeting economic and social aims. The purpose of this study is to develop a scale that measures the social and economic orientations of entrepreneurship in the context of an emerging economy in Latin America.