Social enterprise as social innovation - Co-production and cross- sectoral collaboration

1. Social enterprise as social innovation - Co-production and cross-sectoral collaboration Lars Hulgård, professor, Ph.D. RoskildeUniversity, Denmark hulg@ruc.dk President, EMES European Research Network Centre for Social entrepreneurship, Roskilde University

2. Structure of speech • Two core themes in social innovation • Social Enterprise as social innovation • Efficiency through co-production, participation and cross-sectoral collaboration LH, Wien, 20 September, 2011

3. 1st core theme in social innovation: Relation between state and civil society • Bringing the state back in • “The muscle of the state is what makes it possible for a third sphere to have any institutional power” • “Every single time the muscle of the state is reduced what happens is that the sphere of civil society, the sphere of a positive, democratic impulse is immediately devoured by the market” Margaret Somers: The Great Dichotomy

4. 2nd core theme in social innovation: • Role and specificity of social enterprise http://www.emes.net/

5. Social enterprise as social innovation Roskilde Universitetscenter • Economic criteria • Producing goods or services • Economic risk • Paid work (not only volunteers) • Limited profit distribution if any • Social criteria • Explicit aim to benefit community • Launched by a group of citizens • Decision-making not based on capital ownership • Governance criteria • High degree of autonomy • Participatory nature, LH LH, Wien, 20 September, 2011

6. Social enterprise as social innovation • Social enterprise • Economic • Goodsor services • Risks • Social • launched by citizens • servingcommunity • Governance • participatory • Social innovation • Process • Co-production • Participatorygovernance • Deliberation • Changes in social relations • Outcome • Social value • End user LH, Wien, 20 September, 2011

7. Cross-sectoral social innovation with SE Roskilde Universitetscenter • Co-production and hybrid organizations • Multiple goals • Multiple resources • Social enterprises in social service • Working with people • Serving people’s needs • Targetting people in difficult situations • Efficiency through • co-production, participation and cross- sectoral collaboration LH LH, Wien, 20 September, 2011

8. Social innovation from the integratedperspective ElinorOstrom • User driven and citizen driven resource management can be efficient, transparent and fair • Collective assets can be managed cost effective and democratically by associations and groups of citizens • Co-production: Several actors contribute to the production of public service (professionals and volunteers) LH, Wien, 20 September, 2011

9. Social enterprise as cross-sectoral social innovation Public Policies InstitutionalWelfare State Parliamentary and legal initiatives (CICs, CSE) Innovative social policy Internal Market Act Private enterprises CSR / CSI Sponsorships Partnerships Donation af actions and competencies Civil society Voluntaryassociatons NGOs Advocacy Thirdsector Solidarityeconomy Social economy Cooperatives SE • SE as a means to • Combat poverty • Integration of excluded • Innovate social services • Community development • Disaster reconstruction LH, Wien, 20 September, 2011

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