Emerging trends in social entrepreneurship include: 1. Public-private partnerships that encourage collaboration between social organizations, governments, and communities. 2. Increased impact investing that provides funding to sectors like healthcare, education, and renewable energy. 3. Creating shared value by maximizing economic and social progress simultaneously. 4. Adopting new technologies to enhance social change through training and empowerment.

1. EMERGING TRENDS
IN SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
DEVELOPMENT

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What is Entrepreneurship?
What are a few Emerging Trends in
Social Entrepreneurship Development?
How do Social Entrepreneurs play the
role of Change Agents?
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DigiSwastya Foundation

3. What is Entrepreneurship?

4. Entrepreneurship is gaining significance as societies and
countries slowly realise the importance of small businesses
and start-ups in the robust development of economies.
Meanwhile, entrepreneurship is essential in defining career
paths as young people seek better rewards in exciting and
creative roles than conventional and staid ones.
Karn Singh, PGP-DM Batch of 2018-19
Founder of Oorja Sustainable Solutions LLP

5. How do Social
Entrepreneurs play the
role of Change Agents?

6. Wardiere Inc.
Gregory Dees, who is known as the ‘Father of Social Entrepreneurship Education’, states
that social entrepreneurs act as change agents by:
The innovative and blended approach adopted towards management creates value for
the community and the organisation, crucial in social entrepreneurship.

7. What are a few Emerging Trends
in Social Entrepreneurship
Development?

8. The ethos of social entrepreneurs lies in the social challenge they seek to solve with
their venture. It also provides a lens for how they look at opportunities. Some emerging
trends in social entrepreneurship look like

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Public-Private Community
Partnerships
Social innovation encourages a
blend of efforts from three parties
- social purpose organisations
(SPOs), the government, and the
community, working together to
fulfil societal needs.
Increased Impact
Investing
The focus for social
entrepreneurs here is to
provide funding to sectors
such as healthcare,
education, conservation,
renewable energy, etc.
Creating Shared Value
Social entrepreneurs look
at functioning in a
framework to maximise
economic growth in
conjunction with social
progress.
Promise of Technology
Adoption
Social entrepreneurship will
increasingly need to
appreciate the value that
technology could bring to
social change with proper
training and empowerment.
When the sector boundaries blur, the aspiring social entrepreneur needs to keep up to date
and sync with these new trends. The rapid rise of social entrepreneurship assumes crucial
dimensions that offer different thought processes.

10. Oorja Sustainable
Solutions LLP

11. "During the second pandemic wave, they were at
the forefront of COVID-19 response measures in
Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana, distributing
ration kits, medicines, and support in providing
medical care equipment and oxygen
concentrators and cylinders."
- Karn Singh, PGP-DM Batch of 2018-19
Founder of Oorja Sustainable Solutions LLP

12. DigiSwastya Foundation

13. "Sandeep Kumar’s innovative telemedicine
platform DigiSwastya Foundation aims to bridge
the gap between patients and doctors through
online consultations through smartphones and
other electronic devices."
- Sandeep Kumar, PGP-DM Batch of 2020-21
Co-founder of DigiSwastya Foundation

14. The above mentioned founders are graduates from ISDM in PGP-DM, that
establishes and strengthens the leadership skills and urges development
professionals like Karn and Sandeep to think outside the box through
tailored courses on Strategic Innovation of Social Change. The Post
Graduate Program in Development Management offered by ISDM will ensure
you have the knowledge, tools, and skills to help create a profound impact in
the social sector.

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