Browsing by Subject "social entrepreneurship"

Now showing 1 - 4 of 4
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Open Access
    Circumstantial social entrepreneurship: Exploring inclusive, social innovation in the transition from shadow to mainstream economic spaces. A case study of informal sector recycling activities in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
    (2018) Ndlovu, Sinqobile Sichelesile; Nilsson, Warren
    As global solid waste management systems evolve to include wider elements of sustainability, developing countries are struggling with how best to work with a growing informal sector. This research seeks to investigate how developing country mainstream solid waste management systems can harness the opportunities presented through the informal recycling sector. This research explores the dialogue around „formalisation of the informal‟ and „integration of informal recycling sector into mainstream solid waste management systems‟, approaching this from an informal sector perspective. The research endeavours to offer insights to this discourse from an inclusive, social innovation approach. The research looks at what business models the informal recycling sector use as they adopt or adapt industrialised practices and how these harness inclusion and social innovation. The research area is Bulawayo, Zimbabwe with the informal recycling sector as case study. The main research question is “How can we harness inclusion and social innovation as the informal sector transitions into mainstream economic spaces?” The research employs an inductive qualitative approach through a rapid ethnography, focus group discussions and semi-structured key informant interviews. Key concepts explored in this research include „circumstantial social entrepreneurship‟, „generational informality‟, „value chain alliances‟, „public, private, community and informal sector partnerships (PPCIPs)‟ and „inclusive development as a pre-requisite to formalisation‟. By unpacking the business models employed by the informal recycling sector and how inclusive, social innovation opportunities inherent in these can be harnessed during the transition from shadow to mainstream economy spaces, this research intends to offer progressive approaches on how to unlock shared value during the graduation of the informal recycling sector from shadow to mainstream socio-economic spaces. Additionally, the outputs of this research aim to contribute to context-specific knowledge on types of non traditional social entrepreneurial activity within informal spaces and how these push boundaries of inclusive, social innovation.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Open Access
    Enabling a generation of social entrepreneurs: A study to establish if the practice of social entrepreneurship offers inclusive self-employment opportunities for disenfranchised South African youth
    (2018) Carpenter, Janine; Shelley, Elanca
    This study is concerned with contributing to solutions that address the problems of youth unemployment, inequality and poverty in South Africa, specifically among those youth who are being marginalised from participating equally in mainstream economic activities. It argues that financial and digital exclusion, as well as poor access to a quality education, are factors which are currently limiting these youths' economic potential and perpetuating a cycle of unemployment, inequality and poverty in South Africa. The literature and theory of social entrepreneurship presents a strong case to address unemployment, inequality and poverty, as well as to stimulate economic growth by creating new business and self-employment opportunities for the youth. This qualitative grounded theory study evaluates the theory of social entrepreneurship in practice, by comparing the theory to the lived realities of some disenfranchised youths in Cape Town. The study also provides an analysis of the systems of privilege and the dual economy that exist in South Africa. Through feedback received during interviews with a representative sample of the target group, the study offers new insights into the challenges faced when young people are seeking employment or want to start a business in the South African economy. Youth social entrepreneurship development and start-up incubation programmes arguably perform a critical function in facilitating inclusive economic participation among the youth. Developing new insights, concepts and recommendations to maximise these programmes' social impact is a critical function of this study, which ultimately hopes to contribute to the creation of more inclusive entrepreneurial opportunities for disadvantaged South African youth.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Open Access
    Medicine and the Arts Week 4 - Creative process
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve
    In this video, Steve Reid introduces the ideas of human reproduction and creativity while highlighting that such ideas are crucial in order to make the most of what is available in a situation of limited resources for health in an African context. He introduces three guest speakers: Professor Silke Dyer, a gynecologist and an expert in assisted reproductive techniques. Professor Alireza Baghai-Wadji, an engineer. And Doctor Francois Bonnici, a medical doctor involved in social entrepreneurship. This is the first video in Week 4 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Open Access
    Medicine and the Arts Week 4 - Innovation and entrepreneurship in medicine
    (2015-01-21) Bonnici, Francois
    In this video, François Bonnici, the Director of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship, reveals his personal journey to becoming involved with social innovation beginning as a young doctor struggling to find solutions to neonatal care in a resource-poor environment. This is the third video in Week 4 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.