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Identifying Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities

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Copenhagen Business School

Identifying Social Entrepreneurship Opportunities

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Cours 1 sur 3 dans Specialization Social Entrepreneurship

This Course will clarify the definition and meaning of Social Entrepreneurship and will focus on the need to learn about the source and root of a social problem. You will be introduced to different perspectives about Social Entrepreneurship and you will learn about complementary and opportunistic assets which will help you to detect an opportunity and develop an idea of how to create a business for social change. From a practical perspective you will be asked to initiate a team formation process and start to think about a problem topic that you want to address with your social venture in the future. You will work in a team to research this topic and will gradually start to think about a particular opportunity and identify a purpose for your social venture project.

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Definition of Social Entrepreneurship

Welcome to Week 2. The second Module will introduce you to different perspectives about Social Entrepreneurship. You will be asked to initiate your team formation process and select a problem topic that you want to address with your social venture in the future.

Optional Case Assignment: Ashoka & UnLtd3:44

Interview with Ashoka Scandinavia17:47

Interview with CEO of UnLtd | Mark Norbury10:42

Ashoka Information Video3:56

UnLtd Information Video5:33

Rencontrer les enseignants

Kai Hockerts

Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility

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For us, a core idea is that communities anywhere in the world have a right to

be sustainable.

They need to earn more than what they spend.

>> When I look at investing in children, I'm thinking more in terms of,

them having a right to live a life that is safe,

secure, full of love, and we'll show a model that works.

We'll show how it's possible, to create a home instead of an institution.

>> Cricket is a very, very visual game, but

if we look at it, blind people devised a way, using sound, to play the game.

Blindness or disability is not the real problem, it is the way we all think.

>> We want basically, that every single person who's affected by any of these big

projects that are coming up, dams, mines, roads,

highways, who are affected, are legally empowered to challenge them.

>> You have to advocate for change.

You have to keep fighting till the day you die, to make that happen.

>> So, that's what social entrepreneurs stand for.

They, begin as a critic for

something that doesn't work, they then, don't rest until it works.

The importance of vesting in individual ideas, that actually affect systemic

change, they are irreversible because, when you really manage to flip a system,

it begins to acquire the momentum that very few people can actually stop.

>> In 2004, we had hardly about two to three cases in a year,

where people would go to a court of law challenging mining, dams, but

today we have, almost, like 15 to 20 cases a day, where mining projects, dams,

highways, all are being challenged on legal and scientific ground.

That's what empowerment can do.

>> Homes across the country, who used to not take in

HIV-positive children who are now taking them in, and taking care of them.

It's about ensuring systems change, and more people have access.

>> Today, Drishtee works with about 30,000 entrepreneurs.

I believe every entrepreneur is a change maker.

>> Right from the beginning we said that we do not want to grow as an organisation,

we want to grow as an idea.

>> What Ashoka has done is it has looked at all of these systems changing ideas, and

tried to see what are the values and principles that cut across.

So, it isn't just about supporting individual social entrepreneurs,

it is learning from the work of social entrepreneurs to figure out,

the broader principles that are important for the entire world.

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>> Innovation is the biggest strength of all entrepreneurs, be it social or

commercial, but with social entrepreneur, there's no choice.

I think innovation replaces capital.

>> If you really want to spread your idea, collaborative entrepreneurship is the key thing.

>> If you're working with people, communities, adults or

children, the basic principle is participation.

>> If everyone in the world believed that he or she can be a change maker,

then you would have many more people

engaged with these problems that we are talking about.

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>> I believe that all problems, howsoever grave they may be, can be solved if

we just take ourselves out of the equation, solve the problem selflessly.

>> I think it's important for you to take responsibility and

do it yourself, rather than waiting for somebody else to come and do it for you.

>> And I think all of us have that potential to be agents of change,

and it's how do you get others to buy into that.

That's critical.

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