“Social enterprise” , an emerging field that has received international attention in recent years, is characterized by: 1. To achieve the purpose of resolving social problems and the mission of “Making the world a better place” far above earnings and shareholders’ interests; 2. Social enterprises are innovation-based in search of a new business model. “Self-sufficiency” is a benchmark that distinguishes social enterprises from traditional charitable organizations.

In this study, after collecting the list of social enterprises in the northern region of Taiwan and carrying out analysis on social enterprise organization types, issues of concern, organizational scale, sources of funds, value of innovation and SWOT analysis. The issues of concern to the social enterprises in the northern region were found to be employment of disadvantaged groups, accounting for 30%, followed by agricultural development. In terms of organizational type, company-type social enterprises comprised the majority, accounting for 72%, following by mixed-type social enterprises. As for organizational scale, mostly fell under the capital of 1 million to 5 millions, accounting for 43.8%, followed by 100,000 to 1million. As for the value of innovation, the respective social enterprises’ issues of concern varied, but they each achieved their own characteristic value of innovation. Take the OurCityLove Social Enterprise for example, new job types have been created to turn people with physical disability from resource recipients into resource providers. From the SWOT analysis, it was found that the social enterprises are focused on their own industry and will work with their partners if necessary. Social enterprises, in addition to adhering by their original intention, must be self-efficient to achieve sustainable development. Finally, this paper explores social enterprises’ innovation, crossdiscipline, sharing and continuity, which shall serve as a reference for young people who intend to start up a social enterprise in the future, existing social enterprise proprietors, and related government sectors.