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.
Social entrepreneurship session for students in Creative Sustainability Master's Program, Aalto University
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
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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
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
16.
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
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
22.
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