How might we enable more young people to become Social Entrepreneurs ?
Problem definition
Proposed solution
What are the aspects of the problem that are specific to youth
What motivates individuals to get involved in social entrepreneurship
Conflict
Profit
Mission
Social enterprise incubator: in a target community, we propose to create an incubator to foster social enterprise creation and accompany them in the initial phases
Nurturing
What motivates people (in general)
Power
Prolific life
Money
Organizational conflict
Internal conflict ( to the individual)
How we deal with the conflict between power and money
Why do we get involved in the social
Growth
Power struggles in organisations
What happens when the founders retire or leave
Sense of importance
Worth
Belief
What is particular to youth
What makes young entrepreneurs different from others ?
Is youth an issue ?
Nurturing
A lot of passion to create change and eager to get out into the world. Feels like the world is moving fast, and some of them want a piece of it.
Lack of respect from elders
Perceived lack of skills and experience
Contribute to society
Altruism
Why do we do it
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Does it really exist ?
Can we be selfish
Being recognized
Helping others
Training material: we propose to create training material that young social entrepreneurs can uses to help them with some of the key initial phases of creating social innovation and social business creation
Youtube videos
Moodle / LMS: we propose to create a Learning Management System (LMS) website with a domain name to host the links to the training material and badges that learners can achieve.
Coaching
What are the skills that they need or can acquire from coach ?
The individuals that could coach, do they have time for coaching ?
What are the key drivers that can be nurtured ?
Networking
Are there networking opportunities available in the existing ecosystem ?
Are the existing networking opportunities appropriate or do we need to create new ones ?
Basic 'Maslow'
Divergence of goals and motivations of individuals in the organization
Understanding Social innovation
What is social innovation ?
A social innovation is a novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than current solutions. The value created accrues primarily to society rather than to private individuals. Standford
Can we use technology to foster or enable social innovation ?
Can we make it sustainable ?
What is the business model ?
Yes
No
Less resistance to change
Less fear of failure
More risk seeking behaviour
Lack of mondels / mentors
Lack of support from elders
Lack of funding
Different view of the world
Different take on the problems
More sensitive to environmental and social problems
Lack of education and experience
Whiteboard animation
Gamified learning or serious games such as WASA
Who can best help young entrepreneurs learn the skills they need ?
How can we get young entrepreneurs connected with the local ecosystem ?
How can we assess the gaps in the young entrepreneurs competencies ?
Curated Resource Library
Strong sense of FOMO-fear of missing out
The middle ingredient to a generation sandwich.
Acknowledge that they have a lot to learn from older generations. Meanwhile, they can perceive trends sooner than them, because they still have connections to the younger generation and is just transitioning out of that phase.
Entering into a new phase of their life (adulthood) and
get high on new sense of empowerment.