Objective

To offer an opportunity for the participants to learn the growth strategy of social enterprises from the specialists of advanced nations, the US and Britain, considering the environment of Japanese situation.

Background

A lot of social enterprises are endeavoring to fulfill public needs and spread social innovation all over Japan. They are expected to play a more and more active part.

The number of social enterprises has been increasing in Japan with change of social environment and the support of the administration and private enterprises. It is still difficult to say, however, many of them have successfully achieved social innovation.

This is mainly because we are short of the practical cases from which we can learn of ‘scaling-out’ or ’ scaling-up’ the activities of the social enterprises which have just got off the ground. The social entrepreneurs have not been enough educated and don’t well understand growth strategies peculiar to social business.

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