Social Entrepreneurship

Aims of the course

- To understand the operation, management, governance, and funding of SE
- To know how to measure social impact of a selected SE
- To identify and develop social and environmental business opportunities
- To identify challenges and solutions for users and leaders of selected SE
- To verify the user desirability (market analysis and empathy), technical feasibility (prototype), and business viability for a specific social product/service (business plan)
- To prepare documents for the establishment of SE
- To work in a group or individually
- To express observations and research results
- To synthesize literature
- To nurture entrepreneurship mindset, creativity and innovation within SE

Course syllabus

- Differentiating between entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship (SE) and non-profit sector
- Development of SE and theoretical foundations for SE
- Benefits and challenges of SE
- Fields and forms of SE operations
- SE in Slovenia, EZ, USA, developing countries and examples of good practices
- Social entrepreneur’s profile
- Legal issues of SE
- Financing SE and impact investing, competitions and prizes
- Social impact and its measurement
- Support environment for SE
- Social and environmental innovation

Course director(s)