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Opportunities for Social Enterprise in Finland
Antti Karjalainen, Tiederahoitus
Thought
”Reason is, and ought to be, slave of passions”
David Hume
To recognise, and be serious about, a problem in the society takes passion, to
build a business out of that takes reason
Opportunities for Social Enterprise
• Comes from problems facing the Society
• Health warning: Beware of differences (developing world vs. developed world)
• There are the BIG and KNOWN. Whatabout the wicked and less known (and local)?
Social problems in Finland• Here are the familiar ones: ageing
population, environmental (inc. Climate change), (youth) unemployment, substance abuse, renewal of public services, and financing all these.
• Wicked and less known or local problems: ex. Socio-economic diversity, participation from some ethnic and socio-economic groups, alienation in some geographic areas
How to research Social Problems?
• Look around you and ask yourself: what pisses me off?
• Talk to people• Read books about the Finnish Society• Study, and read newspapers
Few last thoughts
Don’t be too hard your principles: you can run a cafe and still be a social enterprise
All the same basics apply to social enterprise as to any other business
The difference between a charity leader and Social Entrepreneur is that the latter asks: what business model could be applied to solve this problem?
TIEDERAHOITUSEi yhtä ilman toista.