1. SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: THE RESEARCH CHALLENGE (A View from the Movement)
George Leahy
Director of Research & Policy

2. PURPOSE A response to Ken Coalition’s view of the priorities
For the TSRC and CBC
Coalition’s view of the priorities
How this has to move forward
Language and Identity issueS

3. HYBRIDS & PARADOXES
Multi-dimensional
Research opportunity

4. PROSAIC PRIORITIES Sources of entrepreneurialism
Understanding the lifecycle beyond start-up
Developing consistent evidence of impact

5. ROUTES TO/ROOTS OF VCS Reluctance
Embracing (from business-like to business)
Business
Motivations
Who Changes?
Why?
Entrepreneurial
Collective
Women
BAME

6. COMPETITIVENESS Competitive Advantage Added value (social return)
(often) challenging workforce
Competitive Disadvantage
Where are the trade-offs?
When can growth work?

7. Effective knowledge transfer
COMPARATIVE RESEARCH
Effective knowledge transfer
Big Business
Small/Family Businesses
VCS
To and From Social Enterprise

8. THE IMPORTANCE OF IDENTITY
We know it when we see it
We are a Movement
We are inclusive
We are social enterprise….
Definitional drift
Measurement
But there are issues…

9. DEFINITIONAL DRIFT Something must be done
A social enterprise is a business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business
Organisations in the (third) sector share common characteristics:
non-governmental
value-driven
principally reinvest any financial surpluses to further social, environmental or cultural objectives.
Something must be done

10. THE COALITION WILL ACT…
On language, values & identity
In a consensus building process
Leadership for the Movement

11. More meaningful descriptions and qualities
WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE
A common language for social enterprise... articulating our common values and identity
To the Public
As an Indicator
Public Messaging
Top level definition
More meaningful descriptions and qualities
Measurable Indicator
measurement
Stable overtime
But not exclusive

12. HOW WE WILL ACHIEVE IT Consensus building Listening & Dialogue Methods
Collaboration
Interactive
Listening & Dialogue
Practitioners
Academics
Government
Methods
Web-based
Think Pieces
Network development
Media
Timeframe
18 months
Manifesto
General Election

13. HOW TO START If you want to be part of this
enterprise.org.uk