Social entrepreneurship session for students in Creative Sustainability Master's Program, Aalto University
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This document provides an overview of a university course on social entrepreneurship. It includes the schedule, aims, and guide for the course. The guide defines social entrepreneurship as an autonomous economic activity that addresses societal problems through social innovations and limited profit distribution. It discusses social enterprise models and examples of social entrepreneurship in Finland over time. The document provides advice from social entrepreneurs and online resources for learning about social entrepreneurship.
![Schedule & Aims
• Digging into social entrepreneurship
– What is social entrepreneurship?
• [a break]
• You + social entrepreneurship = ?
– How could you relate to social entrepreneurship?](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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- 1. Social entrepreneurship 21E10000 HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD: INNOVATION TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY 2013 (6 ECTS) 21 January, 2013 Eeva Houtbeckers
- 2. Schedule & Aims • Digging into social entrepreneurship – What is social entrepreneurship? • [a break] • You + social entrepreneurship = ? – How could you relate to social entrepreneurship?
- 3. Your guide today • Eeva Houtbeckers • PhD research since 2010 – Contemporary social entrepreneurship in Finland • eeva.houtbeckers@aalto.fi • @aatteinen
- 5. Based on the videos, what is … • … social entrepreneurship? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ecKK3S8 DOE • … a social entrepreneur? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=275iq2CLV yw
- 7. Addressing / solving societal end Autonomous environmental Social economic problems innovation(s) activity Social entrepreneurship Democratic Limited profit decision-making Scalable distribution
- 9. Social enterprise VALUES PROCESS OUTCOME
- 10. Profits and mission of SE Source: Kim Atler (2007) Social Enterprise Typology
- 11. Social entrepreneurship (SE) actors SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP MOVEMENT SE promoters SOCIAL ENTERPRISE Social entrepreneur Managers Owners Government officials Sponsors
- 12. Social entrepreneurship is… • … an activity • … a process • … a social movement
- 13. EXAMPLE: Social entrepreneurship in Finland Co-operatives employing disabled 1890’s Industrial enterprises by associations for disabled 1930’s Workshops and shelter workshops 1940’s Labour cooperatives 1990’s recession The Act on Social Enterprises 2003 Social Enterprise Label 2011 Contemporary social entrepreneurship 2000’ sand 2010’s
- 15. How to set up a social enterprise? 1. Opportunity recognition 2. Individualised activity 3. Organised activity 4. Socialised activity 5. Sustainability Source: Tanabe (2012) Five stages of social enterpeneurship
- 17. Greg Van Kirk: You are the Relative Expert • Know your desired outcome and be true to your desired outcome • Simple solutions for complex problems • Set something in motion • Get from symptoms to problems
- 18. Social entrepreneur’s advice • Wendy Kopp, Teach for America – To provide an excellent education for kids in low- income communities. – Although 16 million American children face the extra challenges of poverty, an increasing body of evidence shows they can achieve at the highest levels (Source: Teach for America, Solvable problem) • Wendy Kopp: Advice for Social Entrepreneurs – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUAS1iY1f7s&play next=1&list=PL745FE7E143A3C480&feature=results_v ideo
- 19. Be encouraged to act
- 20. Your preferences 1. What do you prefer to read? It could be about – miniatures – automobiles – gardening – science fiction –…
- 21. Your networks 1. Who do you know? 2. Who do you know in relation to you interest? Me & myself
- 23. ”They needn't be founders of new organizations to have an impact on the world. But they should be founders of their careers.” - Lara Galinsky 19.7.2012 in Not Everyone Should Be a Social Entrepreneur, HBR Blog Network
- 24. Online resources for social entrepreneurship (SE) • Twitter #socent • A blog about SE in the UK http://beanbagsandbullsh1t.com • A blog about ongoing SE PhD research in Europe http://emesphdnetwork.wordpress.com • Guardian Social Enterprise Network http://www.guardian.co.uk/socialenterprise • The Finnish Social Enterprise Research Network http://www.finsern.fi
- 26. Photo credits • I love the Light & I dig the Sun http://www.flickr.com/photos/untitlism/2609684221 by Untitled blue • The Meaning of Life: 42 - WTF? http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaryredhair/4978759311 by scayredhair • (Even More) Corporate Greed http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigluzer/189382539/in/photostream by Iuzer • Vogelbekdier / Duck-billed platypus http://www.flickr.com/photos/urville_djasim/3611889680 by Urville Djasim • Lifecycle of innovation http://finntrack.co.uk/images/innovation_cartoon11.jpg by Tom Fishburne • On the Road to Somewhere http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/2886794987 by Stuck in Customs • Untitled http://www.flickr.com/photos/48089670@N00/175661429 by tobym • Him Again! http://www.flickr.com/photos/pug50/4578000108 by Pug50 • spider-Web-Luc_Viatour http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc_viatour/4247957432 by luc.viatour • I don't feel like a leader ... • http://socialentrepreneurs.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834525f1e69e201348025934f9 70c-800wi by hugh • La doma http://www.flickr.com/photos/bombeador/2825900523 by Eduardo Amorim