Presentation at the Be a Change conference November 2010

1. Opportunities for Social
Enterprise in Finland
Antti Karjalainen, Tiederahoitus

2. Thought
”Reason is, and ought to be, slave of
passions”
David Hume
To recognise, and be serious about, a
problem in the society takes passion, to
build a business out of that takes reason

3. Opportunities for
Social Enterprise
• Comes from problems
facing the Society
• Health warning:
Beware of differences
(developing world vs.
developed world)
• There are the BIG
and KNOWN.
Whatabout the wicked
and less known (and
local)?

4. Social problems in Finland
• Here are the familiar ones: ageing
population, environmental (inc. Climate
change), (youth) unemployment,
substance abuse, renewal of public
services, and financing all these.
• Wicked and less known or local problems:
ex. Socio-economic diversity, participation
from some ethnic and socio-economic
groups, alienation in some geographic
areas

5. How to research Social Problems?
• Look around you and ask yourself: what
pisses me off?
• Talk to people
• Read books about the Finnish Society
• Study, and read newspapers

6. Few last
thoughts
Don’t be too hard your
principles: you can run a
cafe and still be a social
enterprise
All the same basics apply
to social enterprise as to
any other business
The difference between a
charity leader and Social
Entrepreneur is that the
latter asks: what
business model could be
applied to solve this
problem?

7. TIEDERAHOITUS
Ei yhtä ilman toista.