SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN POLAND

Abstract

Despite the fact that social entrepreneurship has been the subject of interest of researchers since the early 1980s, it has still not been clearly defined. There are two dominant approaches to this issue. The first is based on social enterprise and the second on social innovation. What the two approaches have in common is the entrepreneurial solving of social problems. One problem related to this issue is an inaccurate definition of social entrepreneurship. An example is Poland, where many researchers equate the notion of social entrepreneurship with the social economy. The above issue, as well as the approximation of the essence of social entrepreneurship, will be discussed in the first part of the presentation. In the second part, selected issues related to social entrepreneurship in Poland will be discussed.