Presentation made during the last 11th Annual Meeting of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Development where local and national leaders, policy makers and practitioners discussed how inclusive growth can be built from the ground up.

1. Ecosystems and scaling for
social enterprises
Peter Ramsden Freiss Ltd
OECD LEED partnerships meeting Manchester 2015

3. people in the social
enterprise eco-system
Rafael Ziegler GETIDOS
Norbert Kunz Social Impact
Victoria Peter MakeSense
Ryan Little BMW foundation
Philip von der Wippel projectTogether

5. Which are the key elements of ecosystem?
• People – changemakers, social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs
• Finance - government, foundations, impact investors, new forms of finance
(bonds, loans, crowdfunding)
• Regulation and markets (definitions, tax regimes, procurement, )
• Spaces – coworking, incubators,
• Support and Capacity - courses, mentoring, coaching
• Prizes, challenges, recognition

7. Nantes
Creating new
markets for
social
enterprise

8. rate of realisation
2007 % 2008 %
Public w orks 52852 57% 38,652 39% 119%
Housing 10307 11% 24,165 24% 127%
cleaning 11700 13% 18,224 18% 135%
Green spaces 8592 9% 7,055 7% 152%
environment 6928 7% 5,211 5% 246%
Others 2349 3% 6,463 6%
92728 99,770
Number of hours realised
Nantes: creating
enterprise d’insertion
markets
3 0 0
168
211
176
226
74
90
96
322
168
283
266
3
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
nouveaux bénéficiaires Bénéficiaires en parcours antérieurs Nbre bénéf avec contrats

9. Ecosystems and flourishing social enterprise
• Well-structured ecosystems can lead to rapid growth of social
enterprise
• They consist of organisations, infrastructures and relationships
• They are multi level – governments, regions, cities and localities play
different roles
• Finance is key but as just one part of the ecosystem, we also need to
be able to measure our results
• We will only succeed against the great challenges through new
approaches - including through social enterprise