Social entrepreneurship- Is one step further?

What does social entrepreneurship to make a next step? That question was central during a recent meeting organized by SSO and Green Wish. The reason for that meeting: more and more people take the initiative themselves to a social issue to solve and do it in an entrepreneurial manner. They run up against many obstacles that they individually can not change. What can us as organizations do to reduce those barriers? Representatives from approximately 20 organizations, all in one way or another connected to social entrepreneurship: financiers, governments, supporters, networks and platforms, pounced on a long morning that central question and came with 8 areas a step forward in the road and of course with opportunities to those obstacles. In this post today, the first part in a series of three: 4 obstacles. Thursday Part 2 follows a list of obstacles. Coming Monday in section 3 I discuss possible directions for solutions. Barriers * The concept of social entrepreneurship calls confusion Social entrepreneurship is a relatively unknown concept, before you know you will walk into a definition question. The meeting also clears that financiers / investors lack speak each other's language. They literally use different words to describe the same concept. * We are not accustomed to social impact to capitalize A social enterprise is really a company you approach. This means not only that you should draw up a business but when you make them you also need to calculate social impact. You must, in other words, the social change you intended capitalize. * Current funding for societal problems Social problems are still either by the government 'solved' either by civil society organizations that are subsidized by the government. Today, increasingly, social enterprises solve these problems. Since the Government would in any other way than through grants should have an eye for. i.e. via outsourcing. Whether is through co-financing. As a social enterprise can show what the social impact of that company - and therefore what constitutes the society-that they can hand the information to the government on steps to co-financing to talk. * Entrepreneurial thinking is not sufficiently promoted in the Netherlands Education in the Netherlands leads people to researcher, scientist or employee, but not entrepreneurs. In training at all levels is insufficient attention paid to entrepreneurship in general and social entrepreneurship in particular. Lack of knowledge is leads to weaker business plans. And a lack of assessment of business plans as well funders often lack the necessary knowledge to properly assess social business plan. For social entrepreneurs and support organizations, there is also the need for the existing knowledge. Recognize you are in these barriers? Are you there examples? Other barriers might? Bring all solutions to barriers? Give your comments.