Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Fourth Sector

María Isabel Sánchez-Hernández (), Luisa Carvalho (), Conceição Rego (), Maria Raquel Lucas () and Adriana Noronha ()
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María Isabel Sánchez-Hernández: University of Extremadura
Luisa Carvalho: CEFAGE-University of Évora and Institute Polytechnic of Setúbal
Conceição Rego: University of Évora
Adriana Noronha: University of Sao Paulo

A chapter in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Fourth Sector, 2021, pp 1-5 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Fourth Sector has large potential to move the traditional economic models to the innovative ones, which serves to improve social and environmental objectives. Social innovation and entrepreneurship in the Fourth Sector are generating economic benefits while adequately addressing the challenges toward the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development. This chapter presents the works included in this book, exploring the consolidation of the Fourth Sector in the solidarity economy, best-practices case studies and, social innovations and business models along this trendy sector.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Fourth Sector; Social innovation; Solidarity economy; Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75714-4_1

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