Social Enterprise Reference Group

The group held their first meeting on July 7th. After an update on the work and outputs of the Social Enterprise stream so far, the group discussed issues and concerns and highlighted important areas of study.

The problem of defining social enterprise was discussed, as well as the difficulties of access to large datasets for quantitative research. New areas of research - including the impact of public spending cuts and social enterprise finance - were debated.

The importance of research dissemination was highlighted, and the group discussed strategies for achieving maximum impact.

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