ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT: NATIONAL CONTEXT AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

Anna Verbytska

doi:10.32782/dees.2-6

Anna Verbytska Chernihiv Polytechnic National University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7805-1412

Keywords: social entrepreneurship, social impact investment, social investment, social economy

Abstract

The article focuses on the study of social entrepreneurship in the economic dimension. The aim of the study is to analyze the economic foundations of social entrepreneurship in the European Union and to formulate recommendations for unlocking the potential of social entrepreneurship as a vector of economic development in Ukraine. The article examines the European model of social impact investing. The economic foundations for the development of social enterprises in the European Union are determined, on the basis of which recommendations for the development of the economic subsystem of social entrepreneurship in Ukraine are formulated.

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