Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Social business in Europe: incorporation choices, finance, networks and local development
In Monday's lecture we zoomed from the big picture – the historical mission largely attributed to social business in Europe in this day and age – to across-country diversity. Enjoy!
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Social business in Europe: the big picture
Keeping in the background the structure of a business plan – covered in last week's lecture, the fourth of my module — we now begin to build a strong case for great social business ideas. In lecture number five I argued that rising costs of welfare are forcing every country in the world to rethink their welfare systems. Europe, where the welfare state is most advanced, has the most redesign to do.
This is a change of historical proportion, and European decision makers feel it is urgent to take action. Everywhere social entrepreneurs are expected to come up with solutions to re-engineer the welfare state (but also other areas of heavy government intervention, like sustainability, mobility and energy issues).
Consistently with expectations, Europe is bracing to make serious investments in these solutions, and this presents a major opportunity to social business. The assignments in my last slide are going to be carried over to next week, as this week students are going to be working on an entry to the competition for social business ideas proposed by Tiago and agreed upon by everyone.
Consistently with expectations, Europe is bracing to make serious investments in these solutions, and this presents a major opportunity to social business. The assignments in my last slide are going to be carried over to next week, as this week students are going to be working on an entry to the competition for social business ideas proposed by Tiago and agreed upon by everyone.
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