National e Conference on Social Entrepreneurship - Issues and Challenges sponsored by AICTE and organized by MS Ramaiah Institue of Technology

1. Dr. Shivananda (Shivoo) R Koteshwar
DesignGroup Site Leader and R&D Head Synopsys India
NITI ATAL Mentor of Change (MoC) & SIG Member, ESSCI - Electronics Sector SkillsCouncil of India
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E Conference on “Social Entrepreneurship: Issues and
Challenges, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology
November 2020

2.  Definition: A organization/institution pursuing an innovative idea
with the potential to solve a community problem. These
organizations are willing to take on the risk and effort to create
positive changes in society through their initiatives
 Examples: social innovation and transformation in fields including
education, health, environment and enterprise development.
 Goal: Is not to earn profit, but to implement widespread
improvements in society. However it is still financially savvy to
succeed in the cause

4.  Achieves large scale, systemic and sustainable social change
through a new invention, a different approach, a more rigorous
application of known technologies or strategies, or a combination
of these.
 Focuses first and foremost on the social and/or ecological value
creation and tries to optimize the financial value creation.
 Innovates by finding a new product, a new service, or a new
approach to a social problem.
 Continuously refines and adapts approach in response to
feedback.
 Combines the characteristics represented by Richard Branson and
MotherTeresa

5.  An unwavering belief in the innate capacity of all people to contribute
meaningfully to economic and social development
 A driving passion to make that happen.
 A practical but innovative stance to a social problem, often using market
principles and forces, coupled with dogged determination, that allows them to
break away from constraints imposed by ideology or field of discipline, and
pushes them to take risks that others wouldn't dare.
 A zeal to measure and monitor their impact. Entrepreneurs have high
standards, particularly in relation to their own organization’s efforts and in
response to the communities with which they engage. Data, both quantitative
and qualitative, are their key tools, guiding continuous feedback and
improvement.
 A healthy impatience. Social Entrepreneurs cannot sit back and wait for
change to happen – they are the change drivers.

6.  Leveraged
non-profit
ventures
 Hybrid
non-profit
ventures
 Social
business
ventures

9.  Raj’s is a lead partner at Social Venture Partners, and a
Charter Member of TiE. He is an active angel investor and
mentors many startups
 Raj’s genius has been his efforts to not just deliver
innovative IT solutions, but creating a social
entrepreneurship ecosystem;The ecosystem includes
▪ A platform called goodness exchange (where anyone can
refer 10 other people who can organic mangoes for free).
▪ Enriching the Ecosystem by setting up a R&D center with
leading agriculture institute to educate the farmers (near his
organic farm) on sustainable farming methods
▪ Empowering women economically by employing them in the
farm to nurture the trees and help with the farming process
▪ Enabling a Child in Life skills seeks to provide young minds
near the farm access to education, leadership opportunities
and raises their awareness on organic farming, health and
hygiene
 Raj has created an Organic Farming Incubation Centre,
where he mentors other social entrepreneurs especially in
the area in the organic farming to empower them
 Raj Reddy is the Global Head,
HRD,Technosoft.
 Earlier, Raj Reddy was the
Managing Director, India at
Marlabs and Chief Delivery
Officer-Global and Chief
Transformation Officer for CSS
Corp. and, has worked
extensively with skip level to
the Board/CEOs of India's Top 2
Indian IT Companies, Infosys
and TCS, with more than 20
years of rich and diverse
experience in IT and ITES
industry

10.  Belakoo Education Trust offers free quality education for underprivileged children. We run STEAM programs for
Government School kids substituting their learnings at school.
 We participate in Skill Development Program for students under various running central/stage level schemes
 The primary purpose of Belakoo trust was to create a knowledgeable and empowered rural India through quality
education. Belakoo Trust offers free quality education for underprivileged children. We run STEAM programs for
Government School kids substituting their learnings at school. They had its first class on July 30th 2017. Every Sunday
the group of volunteers come together to engage the students and get them to start speaking with some proficiency
in in STEAM related areas as well as look at building life skills to provide them for a toolkit for life. The classes
currently have over 110 students (98% coverage of all the students from the village).
https://www.facebook.com/belakootrust/

11. 1.Smartphone Donation to enable remote classes in the village 2.Donation of Facemasks for kids and
their extended family member

12. 3.Free weekend Skilling and Lunch 4. Chess Tournament (Free entry for
under privileged kids)
5. Free T-Shirt Drive

13. 1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. DrVerghese Kurien, father of the India’s milk revolution
3. Sanjit “Bunker” Roy, founder of Barefoot College
4. Anil Kumar Gupta, IIM-A professor and founder of Honeybee
Network
5. Harish Hande, co-founder Selco Solar
6. Dr. G.Venkataswamy, founder of Aravind Eye Hospital
7. Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder of Airtel
8. Vineet Rai, founder of Aavishkaar
9. Vikram Akula, founder of SKS Microfinance
10. Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda (better known as Sam
Pitroda), chairman, National Innovation Council:

18. 1. Is it a vitamin tablet or an aspirin?
2. How big is the idea?
3. Do you have a mix of skills in your founding team?
4. Is it for market(Society) today or tomorrow?
5. Have you validated your business model from experts?
6. Is your solution/product adoption easy?
7. Do you need expert team to maintain the solution/product?
8. Does it your product/solution has a shelf life ? Drivers:Technology,
Market, Competition, Regulations etc.
9. Do you have complete understanding and control on ecosystem on
which your product/solution is built?
10. Have you studied how your solution might affect others ?
11. Do you understand the regulatory framework ?
12. Are you ready with n+1 version when you are releasing n version?
13. Can you hold on till the market matures and start accepting your
solutions ?

19. Entrepreneur
For Profit
Not for Profit
BIJLI**
KUJLI**
PEEDA**
KHEEDA**
** Hindi words

21. “One of the challenges would
be to maintain peace and make
India an inclusive society. It is
not enough to build buildings
and projects, it is more
important to build institutions
to ensure peace as nothing is
possible without peace.”
TS Thakur
Chief justice of India

22. Salary is the bribe
given to you to forget
your dreams

23. All pictures are from flickr.com with
either no copyright or with common
creatives

24.  Social Entrepreneur Definition | Investopedia
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-
entrepreneur.asp#ixzz4cCdFZMle
 https://entrepreneurship.duke.edu/news-item/the-
meaning-of-social-entrepreneurship/
 http://www.schwabfound.org/content/what-social-
entrepreneur
 http://iisc.researchmedia.center/article/start-iisc-light-
india
 https://yourstory.com/2013/08/meet-indias-top-10-social-
entrepreneurship-heroes/
 http://www.thebetterindia.com/51427/11-social-
incubators-helping-indian-social-entrepreneurs-
transform-lives/
 https://www.ketto.org/campaign/campaign_listing.php

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26. Shivananda (Shivoo) R Koteshwar
Group Director, Synopsys
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