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What are the future scenarios for social enterprise?
Charles Leadbeater, August
2007
Charles Leadbeater is an independent writer and adviser on
innovation to governments, companies and cities. He is the author of
"The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur",
one of the first British accounts of social entrepreneurship, published in
1997. He has also written extensively on innovation in the public and
private sectors.
www.charlesleadbeater.net
This short paper will examine the conditions for the growth of social
enterprise through a set of outline scenarios. The aim is to inform both
policy-making and the wider debate about social enterprise: what its
potential might be and how that potential can be realised in different
settings.
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