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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
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