SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND SOCIAL BUSINESS INNOVATION IN EUROPE
FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE LOCATION:
227, RUE DE LA LOI - WETSTRAAT B-1040 BRUSSELS METRO SCHUMAN
Project funded under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Project funded under the Socio-economic Sciences
THURSDAY - OCTOBER 6TH
TITLE OF THE DAY: SOCIAL ENTERPRISES:
INSPIRING BUSINESS INNOVATION & POLICY MAKING
10.00 -10.30: SELUSI Welcome Dr. Marieke Huysentruyt
[Scientifi c Coordinator of SELUSI]
[London School of Economics & SITE at the Stockholm School of Economics]
Dr. Domenico Rossetti
[European Commission - DG Research and Innovation]
Prof. Koenraad Debackere
[Catholic University of Leuven]
10.30 - 11.40: Introducing SELUSI Conceptualization of a Social Enterprise and SELUSI Methodology of Gathering Data on Social Enterprises
Introduction and Moderation by Sunčica Vujić [LSE and University of Bath]
• Anglo-Saxon perspective by Dr. Tom Rimac [IESE Business School]
• A practitioner perspective
- emerging markets/transition economics by Loic Comolli [NESsT]
• SELUSI - European Perspective by Dr. Marieke Huysentruyt [LSE, SITE]
11.40 – 12.00: Late Morning Coffee/Tea Break 12.00 - 13.10: Social Enterprises and Policy-Making
Introduction and Moderation by Dr. Johanna Mair [IESE Business School and Stanford University]
• Social enterprise perspective: Evidence from SELUSI Survey Data by Dr. Tom Rimac [IESE Business School]
• Regional perspective: Liesbet De Letter [EC, DG Regional Policy]
• EU Perspective: Agnes Hubert [EC, Bureau of European Policy advisers (BEPA)]
13.10 – 14.30: Lunch
14.30-15.40: Social Enterprises as Lead Users for Service Innovation - SELUSI’s Action-Research Introduction and Moderation by Prof. Bart Van Looy
[Catholic University of Leuven and University of Twente]
• Academic perspective: Creativity and innovation of social entrepreneurs by Dr. Ute Stephan [Catholic University of Leuven and University of Sheffi eld]
• Practitioner perspective: The Cases of IMEC and Telenet by Toon Diegenant [i-propeller]
• Business perspective: Christophe Degrez [Managing Director Eneco Belgium]
15.40 – 16.00: Afternoon Coffee/Tea Break
16.00 -17.00: Panel Discussion: Social Enterprises and the Competitiveness of Europe’s Services Industry Introduction and Moderation by Dr. Marieke Huysentruyt
Panel Members: Johan Moyersoen [i-propeller]; Prof. Bart Van Looy [Catholic University of Leuven and University of Twente]; Prof. Saul Estrin [LSE]; EC high-level civil servant [tbc]
17.00 – 17.30: Closing Keynote Introduction by Prof. Saul Estrin
[London School of Economics]
17.30 – 19.00: Reception Drinks
Welcome by United Nations Global Compact, Belgian Chapter
IN COOPERATION WITH UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT BELGIUM
FRIDAY - OCTOBER 7TH
TITLE OF THE DAY: BUSINESS AS (UN)USUAL:
CHALLENGES AND SURPRISES IN MANAGING SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
9.00– 10.00 Managing practices: Values, Gender and Pro-social employees Introduction and Moderation by Emma von Essen
[SITE at Stockholm School of Economics and University of Stockholm]
• Managing prosocial employees - Insights from a controlled laboratory experiments by Dr. Topi Miettinen [SITE at Stockholm School of Economics Hanken University]
• Values, Management practices and Organisational performances by Dr. Sunčica Vujić [LSE and University of Bath]
• HR Director from a Business Mia Vanstraelen [HR Director IBM Benelux]
10.00 – 10.45: Ethical Banking and Financing Social Enterprises Introduction and Moderation by Dr. Lisa Hehenberger
[European Venture Philanthropy Association]
• Lessons from Europe’s largest Ethical Bank by Dr. Ute Stephan [Catholic University of Leuven and University of Sheffi eld]
• Practitioner Perspective: Olivier Marquet [Managing Director of Triodos Bank Belgium]
10.45-11.00: Coffee Break 11.00 – 11.20: Keynote
by Marion Dewar [cabinet of Máire Geoghegan Quinn, the Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science]
11.20 -12.00: Going Forward - SELUSI 2.0
Introduction and Moderation by Dr. Domenico Rossetti [EC, DG Research and Innovation]
Panel Members: Prof. Saul Estrin [LSE]; Prof. Johanna Mair [IESE Business School and Stanford University];
Dr. Marieke Huysentruyt [LSE and SITE]
12.00 – 13.30: Closing Lunch POSTER SESSIONS:
1. Spatial location of the emergence and growth of social enterprises [Stefanie Hasse, LSE]
2. Respondent-driven sampling method [Anna Colom, LSE]
3. Our SELUSI Teaching, SELUSI team cooperation work 4. Innovation Experiment [Dr. Topi Miettinen, SITE]
Funded under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities
