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UN Economic Commission 4 Europe
International Conference Entrepreneurship & Innovation: Making Things Work Better
Social Entrepreneurship to Address Social and Environmental Challenges
by Filippo Addarii
Dubrovnik, Croatia 23 – 24 May 2013
Institutional partner of and
supported by the European Commission
Strategic Partner of the British Government Office for Civil Society
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CAPACITY BUILDING • Civ Soc Leaders • Social
Enterprises
• Knowledge-sharing
• Peer-to-peer review
PILOTS • Test the ideas • Refine methods
Bringing innovation to life – ideas and solutions
POLICY • EU • National level
Making the case • Gather Evidence • Practitioners
views
Network of leaders & social entrepreneurs
Citizens & civil society EU, member states & neighbour countries
Global economy
More skilled & innovative
sector
Needs on the ground are addressed
Enabling policies OUTCOMES
METHODS
How the network operates
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Naples 2.0 social innovation competition
• To tackle wicked problems of Naples - symbol of public policy failure with an innovative method (experiment): o Running a international prize challenge for problems in society
(concrete and symbolic) eg how to transform a confiscated villa to camorra into a business 4 local community
o Leveraging creativity of people and organizations from across the world
• Partnership with UniCredit Bank Foundation and local civil society organisations
• Prize €10K for every winner
• Support 4 winners to turn ideas into social enterprises
• Seed funding (€150K) 4 sustainable & effective projects
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Naples 2.0: results
• 200 applications from 32 countries (September 2011)
• 7 winners o 4 ex equo
o 1 award non attributed
• 200’000 visitors
• Int media coverage: o Forbes
o Guardian
o Bloomberg
• 2 new soc start-ups to be launched on 3 June 2013
• Over €0.5m total private investment
• Inspired EU Social Innovation Prize
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Lessons from Naples 2.0
• Failure is part of innovation process
• Public institutions have to be part of the plan (in Europe)
• Spread a culture of innovation, entrepreneurship and risk-taking especially amongst the youth
• Innovate in methods to develop innovative solutions
• Turning social workers in entrepreneurs is the most difficult part
• Established organisations can be obstacles to innovation
… private funding is not a problem for good ideas&projects
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EU public policies
o Social innovation in Europe 2020 (2010)
o EU social innovation agenda and platform (April 2011)
o EU social business initiative (October 2011)
oGroup of experts on social entrepreneurship to Commissioner Barnier (2012)
o EU social innovation prize (2012)
o EIF Social Innovation Accelerator: €60m fund of funds (May 2013)
o Social innovation&enterprise in structural funds
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Priorities for public policies
1. Enabling environment:
Define social impact as definition of social innovation and social enterprise (not legal entity or labels)
Identify & tackle barriers to cross border trading & scaling within Single Market and worldwide
Improve access to public procurement
Increase practitioners expertise 4 EU & national officials eg GECES & Italy expert group
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Priorities for public policies
2. Funding
Simplification financial regulation
pilots and experiments across borders
Mix public/private – grants/loans/equity
3. Capacity building
Foster visibility amongst the broader public & potential customers eg prizes, TV shows, testimonials
Support networks eg scaffolding infrastructure across Europe and beyond
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Balkans: pilots and policy
• Involved in 12 projects in the Balkans since 2007:
o Piloting social enterprise in Macedonia
o Reforming European financial regulation (PRAG)
o Developing customized financial services for CSOs in Serbia
o Empowering civil society networks in Serbia
o Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs
• To include social entrepreneurship & innovation in European enlargement policy
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The Serbian case: alarming!
Bill on social entrepreneurship:
o Social enterprises would have to be recognised by the state;
o State owned or state recognised enterprises will have advantage in the market place;
o Municipalities would have to engage no less than 10% of the unemployed in such enterprises. Wages would be restricted;
o If any profit/surplus is made, 50% would go into a state fund.
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Priorities in the Balkans?
• Policy narrative on social entrepreneurship – to be used by EU to upgrade its strategy for civil society and social cohesion in the Western Balkans and Turkey
• Funding - to kick-start social entrepreneurship in the region. Expanding existing EU programmes to include a focus on social entrepreneurship and innovation
• Support - to encourage the development of a framework which will underwrite the legitimacy and the distinct features of social entrepreneurship
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