The main goal of thispaper is to evaluate the currentsituation of innovative activities in social enterprises. A literature review ismade to reflectexisting researchfindingson relationship between innovativeactivities, social enterprises and social innovations. According those findings, two sets of innovations in social enterprisesis theoretically defined as group of pure and combined innovations. Each of these two mentioned groups consists ofsixinnovative areas to be presented and discussed. Every innovative area isdescribedby percentage share on whole group. The mainassessmentcondition is that the sum of all sixinnovative areas cannot exceed 100%. This paper focuseson the total amount of a pure, employee-focused innovation, becauseit isthe main research problem which solved in social enterprises.TheEvaluation is based on qualitative secondaryresearchdata of existing social enterprises in the Czech Republic. At the end of the paperpossibilities of further primary research in this areaare pointed out. This work was supported by the Silesian University in Opava, by the Student Grant System SGS/06/2018 “Economic Literacy of Business Entities”.