European Responsible Entrepreneurship Bulletin, issue 13, July 2009
Headlines
- Creative and on film: Responsible Entrepreneurship as you’ve never seen it before!
- Your chance for European recognition: award for supporting CSR in small businesses
- CSR driving innovation in SMEs? Evidence from Scandinavia
Creative and on film: Responsible Entrepreneurship as you’ve never seen it before!
See the winners of the first ever European Entrepreneurship Video Awards, including “Let’s go to the wood” (Promenons-nous dans les bois) by Alexandre Lemoine, 1st prize in the responsible entrepreneurship section.
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/entrepreneurship/sme-week/channel/index_en.htm
Your chance for European recognition: award for supporting CSR in small businesses
The European Commission has announced the launch of the 2010 European Enterprise Awards.
“Responsible and inclusive entrepreneurship” is the award category recognising regional or local actions that promote corporate social responsibility, sustainable business practices and social entrepreneurship. Last year’s winner was Getting People into Work from Germany, which helps integrate unemployed people with special placement problems.
For full information about the awards and contacts for national competitions see:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/entrepreneurship/smes/awards/index_en.htm
CSR driving innovation in SMEs? Evidence from Scandinavia
A number of innovative and entrepreneurial firms are repositioning business as the driver for social change. Their ambition? To transform society for the better through their products while also achieving economic success. Based on the experience of 15 Nordic companies, this report looks at the faces and business models behind some of these firms and their corporate social responsibility-driven innovations.
http://www.csrinnovation.dk/web/wp-content/2009/01/csr-di-report_final.pdf 
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