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A New Approach in Higher Education: Social Entrepreneurship Education

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  • Lasma Dobele

    (Latvia University of Agriculture, Latvia)

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Social entrepreneurship education is one of these approaches recently emergent. It is influenced by several factors at the environmental, organizational, and individual levels. However, through providing social entrepreneurship education in higher education institutions, it is possible to develop individual’s abilities and enable them to produce innovative solutions to social problems. Social entrepreneurship education has many positive effects on person in terms of individualistic and society aspect. In this context, the aim of the study is to reveal the need of social entrepreneurship education. It is found out that social entrepreneurship education gives a chance to start up a social business. In addition to that, social entrepreneurship education supports individual’s self-sufficiency, creativity, empathy, rational thinking, and entrepreneurship skills. It promotes the social problem solving in society and contribute to developing a sustainable national economy.

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  • Lasma Dobele, 2016. "A New Approach in Higher Education: Social Entrepreneurship Education," Proceedings- 11th International Conference on Mangement, Enterprise and Benchmarking (MEB 2016),, Óbuda University, Keleti Faculty of Business and Management.
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