This document discusses social entrepreneurship and provides definitions and examples. It defines social entrepreneurship as recognizing a social problem and using business principles to create an organization to enact social change. It notes debates around definitions and discusses characteristics of social entrepreneurs like self-efficacy and resilience. It also highlights that social enterprises account for 10% of EU businesses and have created 10% of new jobs, showing their potential for inclusive growth. The document advocates for increased support of social enterprises in Europe through funding and priority investment.

1. Social Entrepreneurship
By Accident
or
By Design?
Deliberate – Intention - Behaviour

2. Social entrepreneur definition
• Definition of “social entrepreneur”........ Wikipedia
“someone who recognises a social problem and uses
entrepreneurial principles to organise, create and manage
a venture to make a social change.”
• Growing arguments over definitions and boundaries
– different definitions and new one’s “Civic Entrepreneur”
– Growing, difficult to measure - National Innovation Systems –
factors influencing entrepreneurial orientation
– Over-concentration v over-dilution (exclusive/inclusive)
– Typology – Venture & Radical Philanthropy
– Identify characteristics of social entrepreneurs
• metacompetences
• heard from guest entrepreneurs
• how to teach optimally

3. Bill Drayton-Leading Social
Entrepreneurs Changing the World
• Restless.......Revolutionary “Social entrepreneurs
are not content to just give a fish or teach how to
fish. They will not rest until they have
revolutionised the fishing industry.” – possessed
to make it happen
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Self-efficacy
Absorptive Capacity
Resilience
Internationalisation

4. Social Enterprises EU Contribution 2020
Laszl Andor, EU Commissioner – Oct ‘12
• 2 million SE’s in Europe
accounting for 10% of all EU
businesses
• @6% of EU working
population
• Recently this sector created
@10% of new roles in EU
• Role in social inclusion
• SE’s largely and untapped
source of inclusive growth
and sustainable jobs
• Emphasised strongly employment creating
• Crucial NOW
• Potential European Social
Entrepreneurship Fund –
work with ESF and ERDF
• Proposed a fully-fledged
new ESF investment priority
for SE’s
• EU - 90million euro fund
• Mapping social enterprises

5. Sir Richard Branson
• Predicted a ........
“sea change from the way business was always
done, when financial profit alone was the
driving force”

6. Why here?
• Social entrepreneurship provides a unique opportunity for
researchers from different fields and disciplines to
challenge and rethink central concepts and assumptions
(Mair and Marti 2006)
- New platforms, theories, surveys/assessements and tools
- Enterprise mindsets
- Use of new technologies
• Today a growing number of colleges and universities are
establishing programmes focused on training and education
SE’s
• Exercise

7. EFMD Conference
• Whether here by accident or design?
• Hope you have made the most of the
opportunity
• Enjoyed ourselves – safe journey