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Engaging Researchers with Enterprise:

Use of Social Enterprise as a model

Dr Paul Spencer Researcher Skills Development Officer

Paul.spencer@uwe.ac.uk

mailto:Paul.spencer@uwe.ac.ukmailto:Paul.spencer@uwe.ac.uk

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

External policy drivers to engage researchers with

entrepreneurial of enterprise skills development because of aperceived lack of commercial awareness from employers and/or

policy-makers

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

Perhaps it is hard to engage researchers because they have

their own perceptions (whether accurate or not) about

business and are not inspired by it. They are motivated by

different factors.

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

A better way to engage might be to start by changing the perception of

profit as being something that is negatively associated with business,

that profit is not a dirty word; it is what profit is used for that really

matters

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/resourceshttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/resources

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

What do these organisations have

in common?

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

David Loftus

http://youtu.be/XTc2Cq6f2BQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5C_ccgp8ZIhttp://youtu.be/XTc2Cq6f2BQhttp://youtu.be/XTc2Cq6f2BQhttp://youtu.be/XTc2Cq6f2BQhttp://youtu.be/XTc2Cq6f2BQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5C_ccgp8ZIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvs-2wEgGAchttp://youtu.be/XTc2Cq6f2BQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikCrx1K7Weghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5C_ccgp8ZIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvs-2wEgGAchttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/resources

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

http://www.adrenalinealley.co.uk/http://www.ketso.com/http://www.adrenalinealley.co.uk/http://www.adrenalinealley.co.uk/http://www.adrenalinealley.co.uk/http://www.adrenalinealley.co.uk/http://www.ketso.com/http://www.screenreader.net/http://www.makebelievearts.co.uk/http://hillholtwood.com/http://www.adrenalinealley.co.uk/http://www.vitae.ac.uk/resources

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

The driving force behind every social enterprise is the genuinepassion for social change, it is a very powerful motivating force. It is

usually the motivation behind undertaking research in the first

place.

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

What is a social enterprise?

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I made a list of people who

needed just a little bit of money.And when the list was complete,

there were 42 names. The total

amount of money they needed was

$27. I was shocked.

- Muhammad Yunus

See more on this story here

http://youtu.be/TPk2gRuIdj0http://youtu.be/TPk2gRuIdj0

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

The reasonable man adapts himself to

the world; the unreasonable onepersists in trying to adapt the world to

himself. Therefore all progress depends

on the unreasonable man

George Bernard Shaw

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

Social enterprise in summary

"A social enterprise is a business with primarily

social objectives whose surpluses are principally

reinvested for that purpose in the business or inthe community, rather than being driven by the

need to maximise profit for shareholders and

owners.

Social Enterprise Action Plan 2006

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

Trading for a social or environmental purpose

Double/triple bottom line re-investing

Passionate/crazy people who change things

Highly motivated problem solvers

Enhanced stakeholder engagement

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

If we were to ask

What are the attributes that would be valuable to

successful social enterprises and/or social

entrepreneurs?

Click on the photo of Paul Toombs to see his

presentation around the competencies of

preneurs

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/resourceshttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/CMS/files/upload/Competencies%20for%20being%20preneurial.pdfhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/resourceshttp://www.praxisunico.org.uk/uploads/Creating%20Social%20Enterprise.pdf

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

http://www.praxisunico.org.uk/uploads/Creating%20Social%20Enterprise.pdfhttp://www.praxisunico.org.uk/uploads/Creating%20Social%20Enterprise.pdfhttp://www.praxisunico.org.uk/uploads/Creating%20Social%20Enterprise.pdfhttp://www.praxisunico.org.uk/uploads/Creating%20Social%20Enterprise.pdfhttp://www.praxisunico.org.uk/uploads/Creating%20Social%20Enterprise.pdfhttp://www.praxisunico.org.uk/uploads/Creating%20Social%20Enterprise.pdfhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/resources

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

Development resources

for use with researchers

on Social Enterprise can

be downloaded from

Vitae, click on photo ->

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/resourceshttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/socialenterprisehttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/resources

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

Video materials

1. What is social enterprise?

2. Meet the social entrepreneurs

3. The Ketso case study

4. Running a successful Social Enterprise

5. Thoughts on social entrepreneurship

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/resourceshttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352681/What-is-social-enterprise.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352691/Meet-the-social-entrepreneurs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352731/Ketso-case-study-the-beginning.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352701/Running-a-successful-social-enterprise.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352711/Thoughts-on-social-entrepreneurship.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352711/Thoughts-on-social-entrepreneurship.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352701/Running-a-successful-social-enterprise.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352731/Ketso-case-study-the-beginning.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352731/Ketso-case-study-the-beginning.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352731/Ketso-case-study-the-beginning.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352731/Ketso-case-study-the-beginning.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352691/Meet-the-social-entrepreneurs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/352681/What-is-social-enterprise.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/resourceshttp://whomadeyourpants.co.uk/index.php

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

Who made your pants is a social enterprise based in Southampton click on thephoto to find out more

http://whomadeyourpants.co.uk/index.phphttp://whomadeyourpants.co.uk/index.phphttp://whomadeyourpants.co.uk/index.phphttp://whomadeyourpants.co.uk/index.phphttp://whomadeyourpants.co.uk/index.phphttp://whomadeyourpants.co.uk/index.phphttp://whomadeyourpants.co.uk/index.phphttp://whomadeyourpants.co.uk/index.phphttp://whomadeyourpants.co.uk/index.phphttp://whomadeyourpants.co.uk/index.phphttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/resources

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The Common Good: a three hour activity introducing social enterprise has been published by Vitae and the University of the

West of England 2010 University of the West of EnglandPlease refer to the resource manual at www.vitae.ac.uk/resources for full conditions of use.

http://unltd.org.uk/hefce/ - UnLtd Dare to be different: HE

Social Entrepreneurship Awards

http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/ - Social Enterprise

Coalition: the voice of social enterprise

http://www.clearlyso.com/ - ClearlySo: The global hub for

social business, social enterprise and social investment

http://www.socialenterprisemark.org.uk/ - Social Enterprise

Mark: Trading for people and planet

Where can I find out more?

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/resourceshttp://unltd.org.uk/hefce/http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/http://www.clearlyso.com/http://www.socialenterprisemark.org.uk/http://www.socialenterprisemark.org.uk/http://www.clearlyso.com/http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/http://unltd.org.uk/hefce/http://unltd.org.uk/hefce/http://unltd.org.uk/hefce/http://www.vitae.ac.uk/resources