se-business-support-strategy
‘Time to Deliver: A Social Enterprise Business Support Strategy for London‘ provides a comprehensive and dynamic approach to building up and funding support from mainstream businesses for social enterprises and financing enterprises. The strategy was developed by the London Social Economy Taskforce, which brings together London’s key social economy players including the Government Office for London, London Development Agency, Business Link for London, the Association of London Government, and the group’s chair organization Social Enterprise London. The strategy includes a program of quality standards for support services and the development of a Social Enterprise Knowledge Centre. The strategy also has plans for the implementation of a number of innovative projects designed to harness social enterprise opportunities within specific industry groups and across the voluntary and public sectors.
se-in-eastern-uk
The aim of this research was to identify the number of active social economy organizations in the Eastern Region of the UK, what areas of the region, what business sectors and in what types of structure these organizations are operating and the total size of the workforce and turnover. It also sought to establish from where they obtain business support, what issues they face regarding staff recruitment, retention and training and opportunities for future growth.
The research had three phases: compiling a comprehensive database of all the identified social enterprises in the region, sending out a postal questionnaire to all identified enterprises, and conducting telephone interviews with a sample group of respondents.
guidance_mapping_se
This guidance has been developed in response to the lack of a comprehensive and consistent evidence base to support the on-going growth of the social enterprise sector at an UK national level, as acknowledged in ‘Social Enterprise: A Strategy for Success‘ in July 2002. This guidance is designed to be of practical help in undertaking social enterprise mapping across a range of geographical scales and for any purpose. Good practice pointers and recommendations are based on the experience of 33 mapping studies which have all attempted to map social enterprise to some extent, as well as extensive consultation within the social enterprise sector.
global-entrepreneurship
This report constitutes the ninth annual assessment and review of entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurial perceptions in countries participating in the GEM project. Since the first report was published in 1999 by scholars at Babson College and London Business School, GEM has developed into one of the world’s leading research consortia concerned with improving our understanding of the relationships between perceptions of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial activity, and national economic growth. To this end, the project has, from the start, been designed as a multinational, harmonized research program providing annual assessments of the entrepreneurial sector for a range of countries.
