Back to School 2 – HKCSS course on social entrepreneurship

The Hong Kong Council on Social Service provides an certificate course on social entrepreneurship for senior to middle level personnel in existing SE projects or those planning to start social business in both NGO and private sector. However, their website hasnt been updated for a little while so for course information please contact Ms. Jessica [...]

Back to School 3: Ashoka’s Youth Venture

Ashoka launched Youth Venture in 1996 in the U.S. with the vision that everyone in society could take initiative and address social needs, rather than looking to the elite few who lead today. Youth Venture is now operating in India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Ashoka Youth Venture India first launched in Mumbai in 2007 with [...]

Motivational factors of chinese students to become entrepreneurs

My research in summer 2008 about “The intentions of Chinese undergraduate students towards entrepreneurship as a career choice” has revealed some interesting facts about Chinese students and their perception of entrepreneurship. If it comes to making a career choice Lau, Shaffer and Au (2007) refer to the content of career success criterion as a critical [...]

The Bangladesh Social Enterprise Project

The Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI), an independent non-profit research centre, in association with the Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) based in Australia and Libra Advisory Group based in UK has initiated the Bangladesh Social Enterprise Project (BSEP), supported by the British Government’s Department for International Development (DFID). This project aims to utilize key strengths of [...]

Back to school 1 – Youth Enterprise Academy (Singapore)

The Youth Enterprise Academy based in Singapore provides interactive and hands-on entrepreneurship and innovation courses for school children ranging for 8-18 years of age. The run different programs including the Experience & Earn Enterprise (E3) Program and Project FunD! In addition to the courses they also offer seminars including a  workshop ‘Secrets of Young Entrepreneurs’ [...]

Job opportunities on Social Entrepreneurship

Are you interested in social entrepreneurship, but don’t dare to stride out yourself? Than contribute your talents and skills to an social enterprise or organization working on social entrepreneurship. Current openings include: Head of Sales & Marketing for D.light Design (based in India) D.light Energy Pvt. Ltd. is looking to hire an experienced and creative [...]

Social Entrepreneurship conferences

Ever wished you could go to an amazing, inspiring, really interesting conference just to find out that it is either to expensive, to far away or simple that the conference happened 2 weeks before you first heard of it? The great news is that most conferences now use social media to dissimilate their message to [...]

Social Entrepreneurs in China

I found a publication from 2006 entitled “Social Enterprise and UK and China perspective”. The book by Ding Kaijie from the China Center for Comparative Politics & Economics provides an insight into the state of Social Enterprises in China. He highlights: Since the 1990s, social enterprise, a new international development, has emerged within the third [...]

Social Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong

While activities around social entrepreneurship are depending on individual initiatives and not yet organized through a network Hong Kong seems to move forward much faster in supporting social entrepreneurship. During the past year a number of organizations and initiatives came up to support social entrepreneurs, to educate the public about SEs and raise awareness of [...]

South Asia Workshop on Social Entrepreneurship

The Centre for Training and Research in Responsible Business & Social Entrepreneurship is organizing a 2-day workshop on “Social Entrepreneurship: An Introductory Workshop for Non Profits” on April 16-17, 2009 at Accountability House, A-5, Sector 26, Noida (India). The workshop is designed for CSR personnel in corporate houses, Social Entrepreneurs, NGOs, and students and will [...]