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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