Enabling Ecosystems for Social Enterprises and Social Innovation: A Capability Approach Perspective

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank all the partners and the stakeholders of the EFESEIIS project for devoting their time to our project, as well as the European Commission for co-financing the research. We would also like to thank Serena Franchi and Virginia Barberis from ARCO for contributing to the research activities of this project.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

About the Authors

Mario Biggeri is Associate Professor of Development Economics at the University of Florence, Scientific Director of ARCO (Action Research for CO-development) and Director of the Scientific and Ethical Committee of Yunus Social Business Center University of Florence. Since 2010, he is Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association. His research concentrates on political economy for sustainable human development, international cooperation, industrial policies, social entrepreneurship, local development, impact evaluations, participatory methods, poverty measures, well-being of children, youth and persons with disabilities.

Enrico Testi is a research fellow at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence. He is Director of the Research Lab ARCO (Action Research for CO-development) and Director of the Yunus Social Business Centre University of Florence, a centre founded in partnership with Nobel Peace Prize Prof. Muhammad Yunus. He is expert in local development, social business, social enterprise, and evaluation.

Marco Bellucci is a research fellow at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence and Coordinator of the Social Economy Unit at ARCO (Action Research for CO-development). His research interests include social enterprises, stakeholder engagement, sustainability reporting, social and environmental accounting, and third sector organisations.

ORCID

Mario Biggeri http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7986-380X

Enrico Testi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5808-1198

Marco Bellucci http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4014-4418

Notes

1. EFESEIIS (Enabling the Flourishing and Evolution of Social Entrepreneurship for Innovative and Inclusive Societies) is a three-year research project that received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development, and demonstration under grant agreement no. 613179. Mario Biggeri, Enrico Testi, and Marco Bellucci (University of Florence and ARCO) acted as Scientific coordinator, Project manager, and Member of the project management team (www.fp7-efeseiis.eu).

2. Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Albania, Serbia, Poland, England, Scotland, Sweden, and the Netherlands were included in this study.

 

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Funding

This work was supported by Seventh Framework Programme [grant number no. 613179].