Practical Social Entrepreneurship

Practical Social Entrepreneurship

practical social entrepreneurship gives detailed information about social entrepreneurship in this modern times and the challenges the exist in the current global world. The social entrepreneurship is all about recognizing the social problems and achieving a social change by employing entrepreneurship principles, processes and operations. Its is all about making a research to completely defined a particular social problem and then recognizing, creating and managing a social venture to attain the desired change.

Social entrepreneurs can be those individuals who are associated with non-profit and non-governmental organizations that raise funds through community events and activities. such as Schwab foundation for social entrepreneurship. There are advantages of social enterprise that are entrepreneur specific such as social entrepreneurs find it easier to raise capital. There are huge incentives and schemes from the government for the same. Since the investment industry here is ethical to raise capital at below market rate.

Social capital is a concept that aims at emphasizing the importance of social contacts between groups and within groups. Its primary means that social networks have a value associated and that they are not always detrimental in nature as previously thought of. The concept of social capital also stress that social networks lead to increase productivity in individuals, teams and organizations. This increase productivity from both financial and otherwise.

The principle of social business defines the purpose of social business and its modus operandi. They outlines the priorities, it states that the business objective of existence for any social business will be to overcome poverty or deal with some problems in education, nutrition, healthcare, environment and enabling technology access for the downtrodden and not just profit or share holders wealth maximization.

Principles of social business, social capital, role of technology in social entrepreneurship etc.

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What you will learn

• Understand who is a social entrepreneur
• Learn about social capital
• Learn about the negative effect of social capital

Rating: 5

Level: All Levels

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Eric Yeboah