"Social entrepreneurship is an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues."
This subfield focuses on businesses that have a primary goal of creating social and environmental impact, while still being financially sustainable.
Definition of Social Entrepreneurship: This is the foundational topic that establishes the definition of social entrepreneurship and how it differs from traditional entrepreneurship.
The Social Enterprise Model: This topic delves into the specific business models employed by social enterprises and how they differ from other business models.
Social Impact Assessment: This topic covers the process of measuring and evaluating the social impact of a social enterprise, including the use of metrics, indicators, and case studies.
Mission, Vision, and Values: This topic focuses on the importance of having a clear mission, vision, and values for a social enterprise and how they guide decision-making.
Stakeholder Engagement: This topic covers the importance of engaging with different stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, employees, and the wider community, in a socially responsible way.
Social Innovation: This topic explores the elements of social innovation and how they can be incorporated into social enterprise models.
Sustainability: This topic discusses the importance of sustainability, both from an environmental and financial perspective, for social enterprises.
Social Finance: This topic explores the different types of social finance available to social enterprises, including impact investing, crowdfunding, and grants.
Legal Structures: This topic examines the different legal structures available to social enterprises, including non-profits, for-profits, and social enterprises.
Ethical Leadership: This topic covers the importance of ethical leadership for social entrepreneurs, including concepts such as accountability, transparency, and integrity.
Social Marketing: This topic explores how social enterprises can effectively market themselves and their products to different audiences in a way that aligns with their social values.
Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: This topic examines the different actors and organizations that make up the social entrepreneurship ecosystem, including government, NGOs, universities, and impact investors.
Social Policy: This topic covers the role of social policy in supporting social entrepreneurship and creating an enabling environment for social enterprise development.
Social Entrepreneurial Skills: This topic explores the skills and competencies that social entrepreneurs need to be successful, including creativity, adaptability, and resilience.
Case Studies: This topic uses real-world examples to illustrate the key concepts and challenges of social entrepreneurship, including a wide range of sectors and geographies.
Environmental Entrepreneurship: Environmental entrepreneurs take on initiatives that protect natural resources and reduce ecological harm.
Community-Based Entrepreneurship: Community-based entrepreneurs work towards improving the quality of life in their community by providing programs, business opportunities and creating local marketing channels.
Social Innovation Entrepreneurship: Social innovation entrepreneurs design, develop and promote new ideas, products, and services that are geared towards solving social issues or enriching people’s lives.
Education Entrepreneurship: Education entrepreneurs offer innovative and effective forms of education that cater to the needs of the students.
Humanitarian Entrepreneurship: Humanitarian entrepreneurs are driven by a desire to alleviate human suffering by creating solutions to humanitarian problems.
Sustainable Entrepreneurship: This type of entrepreneurship promotes a business model that is designed to generate revenue without compromising the environment.
Healthcare Entrepreneurship: Healthcare entrepreneurs develop innovative products, services, and business models that improve people’s health conditions and quality of life.
Food Entrepreneurship: Food entrepreneurs create innovative food-based products, services, and business models that address social and environmental issues.
Cultural Entrepreneurship: Cultural entrepreneurs create cultural and artistic programs, products and services that promote cultural diversity and social justice.
Clean energy Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurs in this type of business promote renewable energy generation and energy conservation. They create sustainable energy solutions and reduce carbon emission of companies.
Technology Entrepreneurship: Technology entrepreneurs use technological innovation to address a variety of business issues, from social justice to environmental protection.
Microfinance Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurs in this type of business work to support underserved individuals, communities, and sectors to provide easy access to financial services.
Social Enterprise: Social Enterprise is a business that operates with the primary purpose of creating social impact or addressing social challenges.
Non-profit Entrepreneurship: Non-profit entrepreneurs create innovative and sustainable models to address social challenges and achieve positive social change.
Artisan Entrepreneurship: Artisan entrepreneurs create artisanal products that attract socially responsible consumers and retain traditional craftsmanship.
"For-profit entrepreneurs typically measure performance using business metrics like profit, revenues and increases in stock prices."
"Social entrepreneurs, however, are either non-profits, or they blend for-profit goals with generating a positive 'return to society'. Therefore, they use different metrics."
"Social entrepreneurship typically attempts to further broad social, cultural and environmental goals often associated with the voluntary sector in areas such as poverty alleviation, healthcare, and community development."
"At times, profit-making social enterprises may be established to support the social or cultural goals of the organization but not as an end in themselves."
"In 2010, social entrepreneurship was facilitated by the use of the Internet, particularly social networking and social media websites."
"These websites enable social entrepreneurs to reach numerous people who are not geographically close yet who share the same goals and encourage them to collaborate online, learn about the issues, disseminate information about the group's events and activities, and raise funds through crowdfunding."
"Researchers have been calling for a better understanding of the ecosystem in which social entrepreneurship exists and social ventures operate."
"This will help them formulate better strategy and help achieve their double bottom line objective."
"Individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs" can engage in social entrepreneurship.
"Social entrepreneurs, however, are either non-profits, or they blend for-profit goals with generating a positive 'return to society'."
"Social entrepreneurship typically attempts to further broad social, cultural and environmental goals often associated with the voluntary sector in areas such as poverty alleviation, healthcare, and community development."
"At times, profit-making social enterprises may be established to support the social or cultural goals of the organization but not as an end in themselves."
"In 2010, social entrepreneurship was facilitated by the use of the Internet, particularly social networking and social media websites."
"These websites enable social entrepreneurs to reach numerous people who are not geographically close yet who share the same goals and encourage them to collaborate online, learn about the issues, disseminate information about the group's events and activities, and raise funds through crowdfunding."
"Researchers have been calling for a better understanding of the ecosystem in which social entrepreneurship exists and social ventures operate."
"This will help them formulate better strategy and help achieve their double bottom line objective."
"For-profit entrepreneurs typically measure performance using business metrics like profit, revenues, and increases in stock prices."
"Social entrepreneurship typically attempts to further broad social, cultural and environmental goals often associated with the voluntary sector in areas such as poverty alleviation, healthcare, and community development."
"At times, profit-making social enterprises may be established to support the social or cultural goals of the organization but not as an end in themselves."