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Internal
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Personal characteristics and motivations |
Influencing:
- The social enterprise’s main purpose and definition of the problem;
- Space/territory and context of action (scope);
- Initial idea for the solution (strategy, choice of technology, etc.);
- The conversion of an idea into reality (overcoming risks and obstacles);
- Degree of novelty of the solution. |
Disruptive innovations:
- product or service
- niche(s) of users and beneficiaries
- business model |
Operational model or strategy
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Determining:
- Opportunity identification;
- Financial viability of the project;
- Entrepreneurship or organization sustainability;
- Effective adoption of the offered solution;
- Degree and type of social inclusion. |
Incremental innovations:
- products or services
- processes
- business model
- organizational |
| Social inclusion of the attended population |
Allowing:
- To identify and understand needs and characteristics (deficiencies, customs, other problems associated with the beneficiaries, etc.);
- To know the problems associated with the use or understanding of the provided solution (whether or not technological) (bidirectional feedback and learning);
- To generate emotional belonging and/or bonds;
- To effectively adopt the proposed solution. |
Incremental innovations:
- products or services
- processes
- operational structure and model |
| Business model |
- To delimit or eliminate dependence on external resources;
- To determine financial viability and (non-)sustainability of the venture in the long term;
- To achieve self-sustainability of the project or organization. |
Disruptive or incremental innovation:
- diversification of funding sources
- services
- product (differentiation according to market niche) |
| Size and internal structure of the organization |
- Creation of new ideas at all levels of the organization (either for the initial solution or for improving the already implemented ones);
- Adaptation to changes in the conditions of the context;
- Diversification of activities/products/services;
- Scope of the solution (impact);
- Diversification of funding sources. |
- Improved products or services
- New or improved processes |
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External
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Public policy infrastructure (social and STI policy) |
- Driver or an obstacle for the emergence of innovative social enterprises;
- Become a strategic ally for effective viability and implementation of innovation in vulnerable and unprofitable contexts;
- One of the main funding sources;
- Accelerate or slow down the process of development, adoption and spreading of innovations. |
Business model |
| Diversification of funding sources |
- Determines conversion of an idea into viable reality;
- Key for entrepreneurship sustainability (especially in the early stages and primary dissemination);
- Accelerate the generation of new outcomes and social impacts (due to the demand for results or to the commitment made);
- Urges the generation of economic returns (self-sustainability). |
- Innovation in the source of resources
- Organizational innovation
- Continuous or incremental innovation in the action strategy or operating model
- Improvements in the business model |
| Access to national and international networks |
- Facilitates the diversification of funding sources;
- Promotes engagement and collaboration of different ISE ventures, social organizations and companies interested in the projects;
- Strengthens holistic social impact or impacts on various fields;
- Promotes generation and exchange of ideas and action strategies;
- Allows the adaptation of solutions into other contexts. |
- Improvement of products and services
- New spreading forms |
Market structure (competition, supply and demand)
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- Creates windows of opportunity;
- Determines the scope of the solution (subject to demand);
- Urges the generation of skills with the purpose of diversifying funding sources and achieving self-sustainability. |
- Disruptive innovation in product or service
- Incremental improvements of:
- products
- organizational skills
- market niches |
| Specific socio-economic conditions of the community served |
- Imposes conditions for:
- The type of solution needed;
- Materials and technology to be used (in the case of products). |
- Disruptive innovation of products
- Innovation in the business model |
| Scientific-technological conditions |
Imposes conditions for:
- Characteristics of the initial solution;
- Progress and improvement of materials and technology. |
- Incremental product improvements
- New materials and supplies |
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