Social innovation i Sverige Kartläggning av ekosystemet för social innovation
Social innovation i Sverige Kartläggning av ekosystemet för social innovation
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Read the newset article: ‘Social Entrepreneurship Education: Is it Achieving the Desired Aims?”
We recommend a very recent research article (2019) on social entrepreneurship “Social Entrepreneurship Education: Is it Achieving the Desired Aims?” by Debbi D. Brock and Susan D Steiner. This content is delivered to you in the framework of the SEBS2 project co-funded by the Erasmus+, as our aim is to popularize social business and social entrepreneurship in the Baltic Sea Region.
Please see the abstract here:
This study’s purpose was to uncover the challenges and best practices in the field of social entrepreneurship. We examined definitions of social entrepreneurship; the most widely used cases, articles and textbooks; and the most popular pedagogical approaches in 107 social entrepreneurship courses. Our findings suggest that faculty have done an excellent job of utilizing powerful pedagogical methods like service learning. In addition, the majority of courses covered opportunity recognition, innovation, acquiring limited resources, measuring social impact and building sustainable business models as core elements of social entrepreneurial activity. The greatest challenge involved teaching students about scaling social innovations*.
- Brock, Debbi & Steiner, Susan. (2009). Social Entrepreneurship Education: Is it Achieving the Desired Aims?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10.2139/ssrn.1344419.
The full text is here: Social_Entrepreneurship_Education_Is_it_Achieving_
Podręcznik – Analiza Wpływu Społecznego
Podręcznik “Analiza wpływu społecznego” to kolejny rezultat projektu “Rozwoju przedsiębiorczości społecznej w regionie Morza Bałtyckiego” do zapoznanie się z którym serdecznie zachęcamy.
W niniejszej publikacji można znaleźć praktyczne podpowiedzi jak zmierzyć poziom oddziaływania społecznego przedsiębiorstwa społecznego, dowiedzieć się jak pokazać wymierną korzyść
z prowadzonych działań społecznych i udowodnić, że przedsiębiorczość społeczna naprawdę ma sens.
Prezentowany materiał edukacyjny został stworzony przez Jaan’a Aps – Prezesa Estońskiej Sieci Przedsiębiorstw Społecznych, który od kilku lat zgłębia temat analizy wpływu społecznego i testuje różnego rodzaju narzędzia pomiaru tego oddziaływania na członkach Estońskiej Sieci Przedsiębiorstw Społecznych. Tym bardziej zachęcamy do zapoznania się z publikacją zawierającą praktyczne podpowiedzi oparte na własnych doświadczeniu autora.
Podręcznik Analizy Wpływu Społecznego jest dostępny tutaj: Analiza wpływu społecznego
The Study on Social Business Opportunities in Lithuania – Full Version Available
The Study on Social Business opportunities in Lithuania (prepared on 2019), analyzing the social business situation, tendencies and opportunities in Lithuania, evaluates: the legal basis of social business (forming the concept of social business entities, attribution criteria, forms, models and conditions of social business); social business environment – conditions / measures (creating opportunities for social business); applies to social business (applicable) social business impact measurement practice.
The first part of the study discusses the situation of social business in the EU countries in an overview the concept of social business in individual EU countries, an assessment of the importance of this business, areas, target audiences, characteristics of those working in social business. In the second chapter covers overview of the system of support for social business in the EU countries. The third part of the study analyzes the social business environment in Lithuania, analyzes the legal framework of social business entities’ definition, reviews the possibilities of financial and non-financial support for social business.
The fourth part of the study is dedicated to presenting the results of the research, which allowed to discuss and evaluate the problems of social business creation and development in Lithuania, as well as the social business ecosystem, together with an assessment of the measures taken to develop it. In the fifth part of the study, applying the script method, Lithuanian social business opportunities are discussed.
Comparing the situation of social business in the EU countries and Lithuania, both general tendencies characteristic of the social business ecosystem in the EU countries and specific opportunities for the establishment and establishment / development of social business specific to Lithuania have been identified.
The main challenges of understanding social business, uncertain status of social business and its business entities also lead to the emergence of an ecosystem unsuitable for the development of social business and sustainable operation of social business entities (for example, as the analysis of foreign experience has shown, a competitive orientation in the social business sector does not promote long-term, sustainable social business activities).
You can download full version of this study here.
P.s. Study is prepared in Lithuanian language.
This publication has been prepared within INDIGISE project. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the project coordinator and may not always reflect the views of the European Commission or the National Agency.
Public procurement for social progress
Public procurement is one of the tools that public administration can use in order to stimulate local investments, economic growth and shape local labour market. Social clauses implemented in public procurements in tern, can be an effective way to fight with social exclusion and support development of social enterpreneurship.
European Union administration also appreciated this mechanism in own Directive dedicated to new social clauses regulations which European Union Member are obliged to transfer to national legislations.
In this post you can find a very interesting and important publication presenting all planned changes in terms of social clauses which soon should be available in all EU countries.
The publication can be download here: Public_procurement_for_social_progress.compressed
This very needed publication was prepare by The Social Platform, the largest civil society alliance fighting for social justice and participatory democracy in Europe. Consisting of 48 pan-European networks of NGOs, Social Platform campaigns to ensure that EU policies are developed in partnership with the people they affect, respecting fundamental rights, promoting solidarity and improving lives.
In France, a mission-based approach is seen as a commitment versus an opportunity!
Inspiration from France! In France, a mission-based approach is seen as a commitment versus an opportunity – La Loi Pacte was amended to encourage companies to be more social.
Last year, in collaboration with Dealroom, this report proposed a methodology to measure entrepreneurial activity and capital invested into purpose-driven tech companies across Europe. This was based on a simple framework aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”).
The first iteration in 2019’s report focused on a subset that started with seven of the 17 SDGs. Since last year’s report, Dealroom has continued to develop the methodology and build out its coverage of purpose-driven tech companies to enable an analysis that is now extended across all 17 SDGs.
For each of the individual SDGs, Dealroom’s team has manually assigned keywords to tag companies in its platform with relevant categories. Each company is then individually reviewed and assigned to either “core” or “side” depending on the business model alignment with the SDGs, in other words whether it is core to a company’s business model, or simply a peripheral or indirect aspect of the business model. By extending the analysis in this way, Dealroom has grown the dataset from 528 unique venture-backed, purpose-driven tech companies analysed in the 2019 report to over 3,000 in this year’s report. As always, we understand the methodology has limitations and welcome feedback both in terms of scope and methodology in future iterations. The dataset and methodology are accessible on the ‘Impact & Innovation’ section of their website.
To follow the entire report and analysis read more here
Successful business models in Denmark – case 2
Skovsgård Hotel
Skovsgård Hotel is a cooperative social enterprise in the city of Skovsgård in the northern part of Jutland in Denmark.
Skovsgård Hotel has existed under the current conditions since 1992. It is owned on a cooperative basis by the citizens of Skovsgård and others, who think the idea is worth supporting. Around 1990 the former privately owened hotel went bankrupt several times, but a group of local committed citizens in Skovsgård got the idea to reorganize the hotel as a cooperative and social enterprise with the aim to ensure a hotel in Skovsgård, to creating jobs on special terms for people outside the labor market and to provide a framework for cultural projects and community center activities in Skovsgård.
The workplace is open for new employees who want a meaningful employment and to be part of the social working community.
Skovsgård Hotel is run by a staff of approximately 20 employees.
Besides the restaurant, where there is room for 50 diners, the hotel has 5 rooms for overnight guests, a smaler living room, a training room, a big party hall and a garden that is also used for events during the summer period.
Skovsgård Hotel also offers a PC repair shop, which opened in 2010, as a workshop for repair and sale of used computer equipment, pc`er, soft -and hardware.
Since 2010, Skovsgaard Hotel have been runing a special education scheeme for vunerable along with two other social enterprises located in the same area. The hotel is used regularly as a training place for vunerable people. Theese scheemes are supported by an fun in cooperation with the municipality. .
Skovsgård Hotel currently has 280 shareholders and a share capital of approximately 300,000 DKR. (40.000 €)
38% of the total revenue (3,7 million DKR – 500.000€ in 2012) come from sales on operations and the reminder part comes from the sale of services (jobtraining for vunerable people) to the municipality.
Skovsgård Hotels particular business model raises special challenges. It is difficult to run a hotel and restaurant and make ends meet, when you also employ vunerable people on special terms. In addition it is difficult to create profits to develop the company, as the strong attachment to the municipality sets limits on how much profit the hotel can generate. Therefore it is nessesary for the hotel to raise funding from eg. private foundations to be able implement major maintenance projects.
More information on Skovsgård Hotel at: www.skovsgaardhotel.dk
