Recent trends for social enterprises in the United Kingdom

Durkin, C. (2013) Recent trends for social enterprises in the United Kingdom. Paper presented to: .

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Abstract:	In this presentation I want to provide you with a picture of some of the trends that are developing for social enterprises in the United Kingdom (U.K.). Social enterprise are becoming an increasingly important part of the U.K. landscape and part of a wider Europe Union agenda Social innovation, which in turn is linked to a broad policy objective of smart growth. The economic difficulties currently being experienced in the U.K. is leading to cuts in state funding, the retreat of state welfare services, the opening up of services to other providers (including social enterprises), the development of a social investment market and the need for more socially innovative ways of delivering services
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Social enterprise, social innovation
Creators:	Durkin, Chris
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > China and Emerging Economies Centre Research Centres > China and Emerging Economies Centre
Date:	13 January 2013
Date Type:	Publication
Event Type:	Other
Language:	English
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/11480

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