This associative form structure began with two homes in Alsace

Hugues Sibille, President of him warns and Deputy General Manager of credit cooperative

What are growth sectors of activity Social entrepreneurship is difficult to measure from a quantitative point of view, because it does not exist as a legal status of company. In qualitative terms, growth sectors are: the human services: health, social services, education, the areas that affect the environment (waste management), services to businesses, particularly for the SCOP. There are original creations as WebSourd, which provides benefits in the language of signs. But there is a significant gap between the desire to create a business and the passage to the Act. And it is even stronger for social entrepreneurship!

What are the brakes to the creation of social enterprise First information and accompaniment of the promoters are inadequate. Creative professionals unfamiliar with this type of business, their economic model, their legal environment, and some legal statutes. It needs to be strengthened to support on the ground, for the business plans of social entrepreneurs. It also better to recognize social innovation as it supports technological innovation (OSEO). Financial plan, are own funds of quality (France Active, Ides) tools. There remains a gap: the financing of industrial cooperatives with important needs (several million Euros). Public authorities should know better and recognize social entrepreneurs.

Why does is the cooperative a legal form of enterprise for social entrepreneurship There are three types of cooperatives concerned: the SCOP (Société Coopérative of Production) which the employees are associated, the SCIC (society cooperative of interest Collectif) which may have several types of members and CAE, business cooperatives and employment bringing together individual self wishing to be contractors employees, do not remain only, pool services. The cooperative is an ethical value, a form of solidarity in social entrepreneurship. The CICS are approved by the public authorities, enabling them to obtain assisted contracts that normal business can win. Many of SCOP are also on conventional industrial sectors such as construction, mechanics, electronics, because they made the choice of democratic governance, in which 1 man 1 vote.

What is the future of social entrepreneurship I support the idea of "Social franchising" to promote the growth of certain concepts, first locally developed on the initiative of associations of type Act 1901. For example, Siel Blue offers physical activities for the elderly, such as health prevention. This associative form structure began with two homes in Alsace. It is now present in 68 departments and key 40 000 elderly people, half at home. The ESSEC business school completed work on the systems of duplication of social enterprises. On the other hand, we must invest on the fact that the form of cooperative organization (SCOP) is a recovery solution of companies by employees, which invest a portion of their savings to return to the capital of the assignor. It represents a potential for development for the transmission of business, major challenge for the next five years.

Is there a profile-type of the social entrepreneur There are two broad categories of profiles: youth training in business schools, interested in the creation of business and whose motivation is not profit but to undertake otherwise, seek the meaning; and managers of large companies, who are more satisfied with the purpose of their society and want to make them useful. A social entrepreneur should possess, in addition to the traditional qualities of a leader - daring, management and management - enterprise and social fibre, the ability to fit into a network in a tissue local, to connect to the public authorities. In England, social public services are managed as social enterprises. Barack Obama has set up in the White House a "Centre for social innovation" on the theme of social entrepreneurship, which clearly now becomes an international movement (OECD, EEC,...).

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