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This paper is focused on sharing positive case studies or stories and different experiences to motivate and inspire current and new entrepreneurs and innovators, and to show them examples of people who faced and still face similar struggles, obstacles and challenges and how they overcome them.
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Since 2006, Romania has shown an incremental interest in understanding and promoting social enterprises as facilitators of economic and social development. This report explores the puzzling landscape of social enterprise in Romania, comprising both ex lege and de facto social enterprises.
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This mapping update gives an overview of the background and roots, concepts, legal evolution, fiscal framework, legal forms, data and ecosystem of social enterprise in Croatia. It also reflects on current debate around social enterprise at the national level, provides an overview of the constraining factors and opportunities, and sketches trends and future challenges for social enterprise and its ecosystem in the country.
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Enterprises with social aims in Bulgaria have a long history and tradition, mainly in the form of the powerful cooperative movement and community cultural centers (chitalishta). These influential institutions first displayed the main characteristics of future social enterprises. Cooperatives experienced a remarkable expansion before World War II as a form of economic organisation that allowed people with limited material resources to cope with economic and social problems. In historical terms, cooperatives and chitalishta have centuries’ long traditions in the country.