The Impact in Palanga is Turned ON: 7 New Social Businesses Have Emerged
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The Impact in Palanga is Turned ON: 7 New Social Businesses Have Emerged

Last weekend the social business sprint “Turn the Impact ON” took place in the sunny resort of Palanga, Klaipėda region, where no less than 7 new social businesses emerged victorious and now will continue on creating innovative solutions to important social problems in Lithuania. These businesses also won an invitation to the social business accelerator…

Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Review and Future Research Agenda
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Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Review and Future Research Agenda

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) is a popular area of research and practice. An analysis of the existing literature reviews on SE reveals a dearth of studies classifying the existing SE literature into multiple research themes and further presenting popular and less popular research themes. With the aim of bridging this gap, this study presents a systematic review of 188…

How to be a social entrepreneur?
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How to be a social entrepreneur?

For all those of you who think about becomming a social entrepreneur , we highly recommend watching a very inspiring speach by Andy Stoll at TEDx UIowa: [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8LVa9pb-n8[/embedyt] Andy Stoll –  a Senior Program Officer at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which is one of the largest entrepeneurship & education – support foundations in the world….

How does emotion influence the creativity evaluation of exogenous alternative ideas?
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How does emotion influence the creativity evaluation of exogenous alternative ideas?

The interaction of emotions with creative cognition is one of the most intriguing topics in the creativity research. The study of Serena Mastria, Sergio Agnoli and Giovanni Emanuele Corazza has investigated the extent to which various emotional states influence the evaluation of ideas, which is a crucial component of the creative thinking process. To this end, emotional (both…

Where is entrepreneurship education heading?
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Where is entrepreneurship education heading?

What challenges of today’s world is the social entrepreneurship education facing? Should its’ content be reshaped and if so – how it should be done to make it effective? As one of our main objectives at the social-impact-oriented Erasmus+ project – IndigiSE is to promote the concept of social entrepreneurship among youth and shape youth entrepreneurial mindset.  Thus…

The 2020 World Youth Report on Youth Social Entrepreneurship and the 2030 Agenda
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The 2020 World Youth Report on Youth Social Entrepreneurship and the 2030 Agenda

Check the latest UN report about the youth social entrepreneurship that could help unemployed or excluded youth to seek their path. It is especially important in the world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, that has worsened job prospect for so many young people.  The World Youth Report: Youth Social Entrepreneurship and the 2030 Agenda aims to present how…

Social Enterprise as a Mechanism of Youth Empowerment
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Social Enterprise as a Mechanism of Youth Empowerment

Liang Shang from the City University of Hong Kong and Yanto Chandra from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University have developed explicit research on the youth empowerment mechanisms applied in Social Entrepreneurship as a practice-based learning activity implemented in the Hong Kong University. The research poses a research question “How do social enterprises empower its beneficiaries?”…