Social Entrepreneurship

By Accident

or

By Design?

Deliberate – Intention - Behaviour

Social entrepreneur definition• Definition of “social entrepreneur”........ Wikipedia “someone who recognises a social problem and uses

entrepreneurial principles to organise, create and manage a venture to make a social change.”

• Growing arguments over definitions and boundaries– different definitions and new one’s “Civic Entrepreneur”– Growing, difficult to measure - National Innovation Systems – factors

influencing entrepreneurial orientation – Over-concentration v over-dilution (exclusive/inclusive) – Typology – Venture & Radical Philanthropy – Identify characteristics of social entrepreneurs

• metacompetences• heard from guest entrepreneurs • how to teach optimally

Bill Drayton-Leading Social Entrepreneurs Changing the World

• Restless.......Revolutionary “Social entrepreneurs are not content to just give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionised the fishing industry.” – possessed to make it happen

• Self-efficacy• Absorptive Capacity • Resilience• Internationalisation

Social Enterprises EU Contribution 2020Laszl Andor, EU Commissioner – Oct ‘12

• 2 million SE’s in Europe accounting for 10% of all EU businesses

• @6% of EU working population

• Recently this sector created @10% of new roles in EU

• Role in social inclusion • SE’s largely and untapped

source of inclusive growth and sustainable jobs

• Emphasised strongly - employment creating

• Crucial NOW• Potential European Social

Entrepreneurship Fund – work with ESF and ERDF

• Proposed a fully-fledged new ESF investment priority for SE’s

• EU - 90million euro fund • Mapping social enterprises

Sir Richard Branson

• Predicted a ........

“sea change from the way business was always done, when financial profit alone was the driving force”

Why here?• Social entrepreneurship provides a unique opportunity for

researchers from different fields and disciplines to challenge and rethink central concepts and assumptions (Mair and Marti 2006) - New platforms, theories, surveys/assessements and tools - Enterprise mindsets - Use of new technologies

• Today a growing number of colleges and universities are establishing programmes focused on training and education SE’s

• Exercise

EFMD Conference

• Whether here by accident or design?

• Hope you have made the most of the opportunity

• Enjoyed ourselves – safe journey