The project “Social Entrepreneurship” works on the development and testing of teaching-learning concepts on innovation in social service provision. This implies topics related to the founding of new social enterprises of various kinds (social entrepreneurship) as well as topics related to the entrepreneurial design of innovation projects in existing social enterprises (social intrapreneurship). The teaching-learning materials are to contain professional, management-related and structural elements and are to provide a curriculum for a regular teaching programme in Social Work
These parts of the project are added by an empirical study in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein, in which data on the status and development of legal forms, provider structures and organisational type of of social enterprises will be collated and evaluated. An empirical study asks how managers of services assess their situation, the need for modernization, the innovative strength of their organisation and its organizational environment, and what developments they have perceived over time. Furthermore, selected fields of social work, such as child day care or legal capacity services, in which a social entrepreneurship dynamics only becomes clear on closer examination, will be examined more closely.
The survey results are expected at the end of October 2023 and will be presented in different formats.