social business in europe: the big picture
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2011: the European welfare state is seeking radical redesign, as social entrepreneurs and social innovators prepare to rise to the challenge.TRANSCRIPT
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//TRENDS//The big picture: what Europe is doing and why
Alberto Cottica
D4SB Master Course
From opportunity assessment to business planning in social businessLesson 4
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Demographic trends in some European countries, unweighted averagesSource: World Bank
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% of working-age population
% of population ages 65 and above
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• health care costs rising +8% per year since 1998 in Sweden
• health care costs rising +6.4% per year in France
• 13% of the workforce in the Netherlands is classified as sick or disabled (2004)
• health care costs are 15% of GDP in the USA (2004): expected to reach $ 3.4 trillion, or 18% of GDP, by 2013
Rising costs of welfare
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Baumol’s diseaseservices don’t scale: productivity stagnates compared to that of manufacturing
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The powers that be are getting worried....
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Different systems have different takes
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European Initiative for Social Innovation
Council of Europe advisory group
Social Innovation Coalition
Think tanks: NESTA, Young Foundation...
Large investments: Social Innovation Park in Bilbao
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An unprecedented opportunity for social business
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... but also turf & definition wars
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Keywords: decentralization
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Keywords: inclusion
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Keywords: mutuality/reciprocality
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Keywords: technology
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• Find and discuss data on demographic trends and rising costs of welfare
• Identify a social business opportunity and look for the data to back it up
• write a blog post/wikipedia entry on the British Big Society
• write a blog post/wikipedia entry on another concept for tackling the same problem
Assignments!