How could we explain that the Societé Coopérative d?Intérêt Collectif (public interest coops), set up by a recent law in 2001, did not turn out the way expected? Even though in France a lot of actors supported and asked for the constitution of a ?social enterprise?, only a hundred SCIC or so...

This article deals with the problem of contemporary innovative process and organizational emergence in the french non profit sector, through a study of innovative micro-projects financed by the program of measure 10B in FSE (Social Fund European). To study processes of emergence and development...