“If I had 60 minutes to solve a problem
and my life depended on it, I’d spend 55
minutes determining the right question
to ask, and 5 minutes thinking aloud
about the solution”. Albert Einstein
UNIT 1 Introduction to
Social Enterprise
The starting...
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“If I had 60 minutes to solve a problem
and my life depended on it, I’d spend 55
minutes determining the right question
to ask, and 5 minutes thinking aloud
about the solution”. Albert Einstein
UNIT 1 Introduction to
Social Enterprise
The starting point for the study of any topic is
often to provide a definition, defining the key
terms that we are studying. We have a problem
with ‘social enterprise’ as a term, however,
because there is still a lot of debate about a
definition. We will come back to definitions in a
while, but first I was to ask a slightly different
question.
What is social enterprise for?
This, I think is a better question than ‘what is
social enterprise’. I think that the question makes
our study of social enterprise purposeful. It
seems to me that social enterprise the PURPOSE
of social enterprise is ‘making the world a
slightly better place’. But there are lots of
different ways of making the world a better place
and this can just get messy and
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