Social Entrepreneurship ( 471021)

Learning Outcomes

The main goal of this Unit is to introduce students to social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

While referring constantly to the theoretical and conceptual “state of the art” in social entrepreneurship, the syllabus develops mainly through a methodology that uses abundant case-studies, constantly supporting students in their critical analysis and enabling them, at the end of the semester, to build their own social entrepreneurship project, to develop the critical spirit to analyze it and be able to communicate it.

At the beginning, the student is invited to do individual work analyzing and presenting cases, but the ultimate goal is to develop skills for teamwork in the area of social entrepreneurship.

Study Program

  1. Introduction: social entrepreneurship and social innovation.
  2. Areas of social entrepreneurship: an overview
  3. Conceptual model of social entrepreneurship
  4. Vision (the entrepreneur, the problem and value creation)
  5. Design (the solution, sustainability, impact, integration)

iii. Action (the pilot, viability, communication)

  1. The challenge of building a social project and a social organization
  2. The social economy and the organisations of social economy in Portugal and the European Union: origins, history and their importance in the economy

Bibliography

SANTOS, Filipe; SALVADO, João; CARVALHO, Isabel; AZEVEDO, Carlos

(2015), Manual para Transformar o Mundo – da Visão Inspiradora ao Sucesso da

Iniciativa de Impacto, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa

 

PORTALES, Luís (2019), Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship -Fundamentals, Concepts and Tools, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham Suíça: Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

 

KUCHER, J. Howard e RAIBLE, Stephanie (2022), Social Entrepreneurship - A Practice-Based Approach to Social Innovation, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Reino Unido