Blog
September 2016
Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises – Nordic Perspectives
”Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises - Nordic Perspectives” is a new book on social enterprises in a particular Nordic perspective. The book is edited by professor Linda Lundgaard Andersen and Roger Spear from Centre for [...]
Policy brief on scaling the impact of social enterprises
A new policy brief on strategies and policies to scale the social impact of social enterprises has been produced within a multiannual cooperation between the LEED programme of the OECD and the Directorate General Employment, Social [...]
What would happen if we support circular economy with tax exemptions? Look at Sweden
Can you imagine the new opportunities for the social enterprises in the circular economy sector if some other countries would follow the Sweden’s lead to make certain services VAT exempt? Would you stop throwing things away and get them repaired instead, if it were cheaper to do so? This is the qustions being asked and debated in the Sweden at the moment. […]
Social Entrepreneurs Need To Be Futurists, Too
we just came across an interesting article on Fast Company about a new type of social entrepreneurs that would like to share with you. What if we tried to prevent future problems, instead of just solving the ones in front of us? This is the question asked. […]
August 2016
Get inspiration from global examples!
There are many proven way how a slightly tired social entrepreneur can get new inspiration and ideas. One of those methods is to look at international examples of social entrepreneurship. Sometimes these are mind-blowing examples [...]
Development of methodology and training for social entrepreneurship awareness and promotion in Latvia
A number of non-governmental organizations (including Social innovation centre), companies will prepare two methodologies and train the Ministry of Welfare and financial institutions "Altum" employees on how to recognize and promote social enterprises in Latvia. [...]
