Social economy and social entrepreneurship are concepts subject of much debate in the academic environment, as their … of policies aimed at enhancing this type of entrepreneurship, in a constantly changing social environment. …

The current empirical entrepreneurship literature mainly shows a positive correlation between entrepreneurship … (measured as the number of startups) and economic growth. However, the mechanisms by which entrepreneurship exerts its positive … efficient, new companies may lead to closures of less efficient ones. Based on an assumption that economic entrepreneurship in …

Social entrepreneurship has been recognized as a helpful instrument of social and economic policy. The European … entrepreneurship and institutional environment in Portugal. A quantitative approach is used in the study, and primary data were … institutional environment is weak. Therefore, social entrepreneurship could be an instrument of regional development and contribute …