Social entrepreneurs are critical to developing sustainable solutions to the challenges of the 21st century. The study focuses on identifying the support needed to enable community-based social entrepreneurs to be effective within disadvantaged neighbourhoods in the UK.
It sketches out the context within which individuals, families, neighbourhoods, cities, businesses and national and supranational bodies operate; describes the range of activities in which social entrepreneurs are engaged; identifies some of the core characteristics of social entrepreneurs and focuses upon the importance of social entrepreneurs in the community.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8225024/Practical-People-Noble-Caus...
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Locations:
United Kingdom ,All Europe (48 countries) Thematic scope:
Arts Management & Entrepreneurship Languages:
English Type of publication:
Research Tagged as:
community-based social entrepreneurship, disadvantaged groups, social entrepreneurship. social innovation
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