Educating Social Entrepreneurs

The University of Northampton model

Born or taught?

• Organiser, opportunity spotter, innovator, risk-taker, creative

• Need for achievement, autonomous, ambiguity tolerance

• (Say, Cantillon, Kirzner, Schumpter, Kight, Casson, Shackle mcLelland, Meredith, De Vries)

• They may be born that way, but can they learn?

• More importantly, can they be taught?

Entrepreneur v Social Entrepreneur

• How is what they ARE, different?

• How is what they DO, different?

• How does their model of business differ?

• How does their model of the world differ?

The field

• Limited body of research– Entrepreneurs are not MUCH different in classical terms– But how they do what they do is differently motivated

• Very little Higher Education– University of East London– Masters modules in many Universities-

• Harvard, Oxford etc• Very little education

– Enterprise education in schools• MASSIVE public policy interest

– SE units in Cabinet Office, DoH, DCLG• Lots of practice

– reflective and uncritical

The degree

How to do the business bit

Social issues & how society changes

Wider developmentdebate

The Social Enterprise degree

Business Entrepreneurship

Third World Development

Sociology & Social Welfare

Level 4

• Introducing Social Enterprise

• Introduction to Enterprise & Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurial Skills Development

• Volunteering

• The Developing World

• Social Identities and Everyday Life

• Introduction to Management

• English for Business Studies

Business Entrepreneurship

Third World Development

Sociology & Social Welfare

• Enterprise in Society

• New Ventures

• Globalisation and Development in the 21st Century

• Community Involvement

• Management Skills and Development

• Events Management

• Social Research: Principles and Practice

Level 5

Business Entrepreneurship

Third World Development

Sociology & Social Welfare

Level 6

• Dissertation• Research Project or Joint Dissertation• Growing Social Enterprises• Opportunity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship• Social Responsibility of Business• Development and change in the Third World• Utopias and Dystopias: Contemporary Themes in Social Theory• Social Change & Communities

Business Entrepreneurship

Third World Development

Sociology & Social Welfare

Routes

Business Entrepreneurship

Third World Development

Sociology & Social Welfare

AssociateStudents

Foundation Degree

SchoolsProgramme

EnterpriseEducators

PG Cert.

Diploma

MA SocialEnterprise

MgtBA (Hons) Social Enterprise Development

Infrastructure

BusinessLink

East Midlands

Business School School of Health

School of the Arts Knowledge Exchange

Business Entrepreneurship

Third World Development

Sociology & Social Welfare

NBS Funded Projects Unit

BA (Hons) Social Enterprise Development

Infrastructure

BusinessLink

East Midlands

Business School School of Health

School of the Arts Knowledge Exchange

NBS Funded Projects Unit

BA (Hons) Social Enterprise Development