Meet Up – Hive Arena Seoul – 6 September 2016

Get to know the Dutch social enterprise sector!

• The Netherlands?

• Social Enterprise NL

• Inspiring social enterprises

• Ecosystem in NL

• Lessons for Korea (and NL)?

Meet up

Distance NL – Korea > 8609.4 Kilometers….

Context the Netherlands

Rich welfare state

Tradition of entrepreneurship Individualistic

Facts:

• 16 million inhabitants

• 13th GDP per capita

• Political fragmentation (16

parties in parliament)

Social issues in NL

Domestic poverty and loneliness Low participation of people with

disabilities

Very low level of clean energy Migrant communities

Social entrepreneurship in NL in 2011…

What does Social Enterprise NL do?

• Common identity – member structure• Now 300+ members

• Visibility in media

• Business support program • Workshops and masterclasses

• Peer 2 peer & Professionals

• Investment readiness program

• Incubator for health care

social enterprises

• Lobby for better ecosystem• National and local government

• Financial institutions

• Universities

Variety in social impact

13%

17%

17%

20%

32%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%

Care

Social cohesion

International development

Climate change

Labour participation

Taxi Electric

Taxi Electric - Background

• Founded in 2011• Ruud Zandvliet and Edvard Hendriksen (32), both

background in private equity and IT, wanted to

contribute to society

• Theory of change• Problem: air quality Amsterdam

• Solution: 100% electric taxi’s

• Business model• Focus on B2B market, hotels and companies.

Subsidies for training.

Taxi Electric – Impact and developments

Fairphone

Fairphone- Background

• Founded in 2011• Bas van Abel (37), could not fix Nintendo DS of

son..

• Theory of change• Problem: Unsustainable use of minerals

• Solution: New smartphone with traceable and

repairable elements

• Business model• Crowd pre sales, webshop and partnerships

Fairphone – Impact and developement

• 100% ‘fair’ impossible, totally transparent

• 2016: launch of Fairphone 2, now 100.000+

Fairphone owners

• Traceable gold and tungsten and welfare funds for

workers

• Looking for new investment to grow

De Prael

De Prael- Background

• Founded in 2001• Arno and Fer (55), both worked as a nurse in

mental hospital

• Theory of change• Problem: mental patients need real jobs to

integrate in society

• Solution: Beer brewery and café where ex

patients work

• Business model• B2B, B2C, café and restaurant and support

from foundations and government

De Prael – developments and impact

• From 75% government subsidies to 25% subsidies

(more beer sold)

• 100+ employees (different type contracts)

• Second location opened in 2016

Social Enterprise Monitor 2016

• 10% employee growth a year

• B2B (46%) and B2C (32%) most important customers

• Increase in societal awareness from customers

• Attracting customers and local government most

important obstacles for growth

• 60% of social enterprises measure impact

Ecosystem according to OECD

Ecosystem: government follows..

• No national government policy, no legal status

• 2015 > report of Social Economic Council

• Local government named as obstacle, cities such

as Amsterdam start to adopt policy.

Ecosystem: finance developing

• Traditional philanthropy funds start to invest in

social enterprises

• Crowdfunding increasingly important

• Two large scale investment funds targeted at

social enterprises

• Banks have difficulties financing all SME’s

To summarize

• Attention for social entrepreneurship relatively

recent, but now very ‘hot’.

• More finance opportunities, not the ‘most

important obstacle’ anymore

• Attracting customers remains important obstacle

• Different impact incubators and accelerators

• Government starting to develop policies

• New actors in the field such as B Corp

Lessons for Korea?

• Create a common identity to the public

• Stimulate peer to peer learning

• Make it important, traditional growth model not

longer sustainable

• Government must learn from developments on the

ground, not other way around