Now is the right time for the social enterprise business model to rise to the top of the agenda, argues Dr Helen Haugh, University Senior Lecturer in Community Enterprise at Cambridge Judge Business School. Its pro-social approach offers opportunities to find new ways of delivering existing services and delivering new services to meet unmet needs. This social innovation can be used to address various intractable problems that society faces globally around health issues, access to healthcare, inequality, education, poverty and social exclusion.
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29 May 2009.