ViLabs is a private research center, a pioneer in the design and implementation of methodologies in the context of Social Innovation and in Social Entrepreneurship. The company has designed and implemented a quite respective number of European and National projects delivering substantially innovative social results (either in the form of methodologies or in the form of substantive technological and business results). Examples of the Company's action as well as the magnitude of the actions can be found by going to the company's website. Typical examples are European co-financed projects jointly carried out with members of the company's partner network, SavingFood and Families_Share.
In this lesson we have gathered the key concepts, ideas and knowledge needed to understand the concept of Social Innovation, to support your first steps towards creating a "Social" business and to identify or even create potential funding and capital by raising opportunities through the use of crowdfunding activities, which, although is a practice known from the ancient times, is not as widespread today, at least in the Greek economic and business ecosystem.
A social enterprise is an entity, whose main objective is to have a social impact and not to necessarily make a profit for their owners or shareholders. It operates by providing products and services for the market in an entrepreneurial and innovative way, while using the profits to achieve social objectives.
