Initiation Brainstorms #5: Social Entrepreneurship @ FAP

Initiation Brainstorms #5: Social Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship day@FAP no Bairro
Porto - 7 June 2024
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Summary

Goal: Launch initiation brainstorms across academia to foster the early awareness of social entrepreneurship and the creation of new ventures, especially among graduate and undergraduate students. The entrepreneurship days will be promoted and organized with students associations, clubs and others student initiatives, in close cooperation with the technology transfer offices. The ultimate goal is to foster knowledge building about entrepreneurship in academia.

Social Entrepreneurship

Over the past two decades, the citizen sector has discovered what the business sector learned long ago: There is nothing as powerful as a new idea in the hands of a first-class entrepreneur.

Dr. Scott Sherman will address “The Science of Making the World a Better Place”: What separates the most successful social change campaigns from those that fail? Dr. Sherman spent seven years researching how people win when they are trying to change the world. In this presentation, he talks about his surprising findings. Most of the traditional attempts to change the world, including politics, law, and even science, were unsuccessful. The most successful strategies looked much like the new field of social entrepreneurship. In this short presentation, Dr. Sherman will discuss why social entrepreneurship is one of the most promising ways to change the world.

Just as entrepreneurs change the face of business, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and improving systems, inventing new approaches, and creating solutions to change society for the better.