Social entrepreneurship lecture1

1. Aivars Timofejevs
12.01.2016.
SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
(Lecture 1 and the task)

2. Agenda
• Entrepreneurship
• Social entrepreneurship
• Social Innovation
• Practical how to’s

3. Entrepreneur: born or ?

4. Opportunities and entrepreneur
• Entrepreneurial opportunity can be either
an objective construct visible to an
entrepreneur
or
• a construct created by a knowledgeable and
creative entrepreneur

5. Drivers to start
• Finacial need
• Social need
• Need for personal
development

6. Social entrepreneurship
• Using business techniques and approach to solve
a social problem
or
• make some other contribution to society
beneficial for certain group of people

7. Some examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOOnBZl8vk0
http://tagurpidilavka.ee/ http://otraelpa.lv/veikali/ http://www.mammu.lv/about/

8. Important business aspects in SE
• Supply
• Demand
• Value chain
• Money involved

9. Social innovation
• Social innovation offers an effective, sustainable
and positive social change.
• Social innovation focuses attention on the ideas
and solutions that create social value — as well as
the processes through which they are generated.
• It tends to cooperate rather than compete.

10. Social innovation- how to?
• Discover
• Curiosity
• Pain
• Dissatisfaction
• Develop
• Planning and resources
• Implement
• KPI and control

11. Where to search for creative
ideas?
• Ideas from nature
• Combine impossible
• Mix and remix individual ideas
• Prove the opposite

12. Aivars Timofejevs
aivars.timofejevs@sseriga.edu
Thank you and good luck!

13. Description of the Task
Your task is to:
- Identify a social problem in the local area,
- Describe it in 2-3 pages of A4, font size 12 Times New Roman,
- Send the work to the e-mail rv2g@riga.lv by 16th February, 2016. Subject:
Ekonomikas konkursam.
- Include in the title page of your work:
- the number and names of all the participants,
- School, class,
- Teacher’s name, e-mail, tel. number

14. Assessment Criteria
1. Relevance to the topic (points 1-5),
2. Impact, number of people/social groups benefiting from the
idea (points 1-5),
3. Level of innovation and originality (points 1-5),
4. Possibility of implementation (points 1-5).
Maximum – 20 points
Contact person teacher Ruta Pelce, Riga State Gymnasium No 2
rutap@inbox.lv; tel. 29352925