Exploring the Social Entrepreneurship in Ecosystems for Colombia context

Abstract

This study analyses the exploration of social entrepreneurship in ecosystems (SEE) for the Colombia context understanding their dynamics at the regional level and their impact on public policy. The analysis of document content and its contextualization in four cities, and the interpretation of their evolution, institutions, and actors, was the methodology applied. The results highlight the pillars of the SEE: markets, support, politics, human capital, culture, and financial capital; and their components as actors: consumers, networks, infrastructure, non-governmental institutions, leadership, government, educational institutions, staff, success stories, social norms, credit, and investors. The initiative of regional governments has been constant in exploration Entrepreneurship Ecosystems, with universities as articulators by identifying and recognizing the actors in their dynamics of creating social value, but not in exploration of SEE due to lack of clear public policies, for Social Entrepreneurship.