How business can be used to create value beyond profit?
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How business can be used to create value beyond profit?

Real Value is an independent award-winning economics documentary exploring how today’s social entrepreneurs and thought leaders are re-envisioning business as a powerful force for positive social change – creating long-term and sustainable value in their communities by putting people and planet over profit. It is about connecting motivational stories from social entrepreneurs working in agriculture,…

Invest in Meaningful Innovation: Join Us in Partnering with Social Ventures Started by Young People
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Invest in Meaningful Innovation: Join Us in Partnering with Social Ventures Started by Young People

For over 20 years, IYF has nurtured young leaders as they tackle urgent social challenges in their communities. Today we are thrilled to announce the Strategic Alliance Initiative, through which IYF will partner with a consortium of social ventures from our network to drive impact and innovation on issues affecting people and the planet. This collaboration…

A Dutch Pilot Study in Primary Teacher Education: Social Entrepreneurship Education in Focus
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A Dutch Pilot Study in Primary Teacher Education: Social Entrepreneurship Education in Focus

In a Dutch Institute for Primary Teacher Education, a pilot study was undertaken on social entrepreneurship education (SEE). It was a part of the international project “UKids – Social Entrepreneurship Programme for Kids!”. As game designing appears to offer good opportunities for the enhancement of empathy and business-related skills, student teachers were instructed by the…

Social entrepreneurship – a survey of current research
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Social entrepreneurship – a survey of current research

This working paper provides an intrapolated figure for Sweden using cubic splines, which shows that Sweden ranks in the middle of the European countries. At the political decision level both the European Union and individual member states begin to adopt or suggest special legal framework conditions, including beneficial treatment, for so-called social enterprises. The paper concludes…

A Positive Theory of Social Entrepreneurship
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A Positive Theory of Social Entrepreneurship

Filipe M. Santos, assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Academic Director of the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative at INSEAD Business School in France, presents a theory aimed at advancing scholarly research in social entrepreneurship.  By highlighting the key trade-off between value creation and value appropriation and explaining when situations of simultaneous market and government failure may arise, Santos suggest…

Drivers toward Social Entrepreneurs Engagement in Poland: An Institutional Approach
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Drivers toward Social Entrepreneurs Engagement in Poland: An Institutional Approach

The aim of this study is to identify the factors that influence the involvement of individuals in social entrepreneurship in Poland from an institutional economics perspective. The research is based on exploratory data analysis using qualitative data covering 22 interviews with social entrepreneurs and 10 representatives of stakeholders from Poland as well as observations and…

UPSHIFT, UNICEF’s flagship social innovation programme
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UPSHIFT, UNICEF’s flagship social innovation programme

There are 1.8 billion young people in the world today, nearly 90 per cent of whom live in low- and middle-income countries — the largest cohort ever. Yet globally more than 200 million adolescents are out of school and youth unemployment is 13% globally; 3 times higher than the rate for adults. There are many different reasons…

A Recipe Book for Social Finance – A Practical Guide on Designing and Implementing Initiatives to Develop Social Finance Instruments and Markets
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A Recipe Book for Social Finance – A Practical Guide on Designing and Implementing Initiatives to Develop Social Finance Instruments and Markets

European Commission prepared a guide that is intended to facilitate access to social finance by encouraging investors to provide suitable supply or build capacity for sound demand. While respecting the various organisational models and social missions of social enterprises, we want to see how external social finance can help implement their business models, especially as they…

What’s the relation between entrepreneurship education and innovation?
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What’s the relation between entrepreneurship education and innovation?

As part of the InDigiSE Erasmus+ project we would like to recommend you this hypothesis and theory article exploring the relationship between entrepreneurship education and innovation. ‘How Does the Entrepreneurship Education Influence the Students’ Innovation? Testing on the Multiple Mediation Model’ by Xingjian Wei, Xiaolang Liu and Jian Sha INTRODUCTION: Entrepreneurship education cultivates innovative talents, which are an…