Bridging Entrepreneurship and Social Innovations

Edited By: Elmar Steurer, Emanuel Herrmann

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This book details how social innovations impact society in areas like education and health. Based on the experience of authors from emerging countries, it presents practical methods for successful entrepreneurship and explains transformative advances in business management.

This book details how social innovations positively impact on non- or low-profit parts of society, such as education, health and energy, and describes a variety…

This book details how social innovations positively impact on non- or low-profit parts of society, such as education, health and energy, and describes a variety of methods for the successful implementation of entrepreneurship. The contributions here are based on the experience of authors from emerging countries, and present and explain practical advances in social innovation and transformative business management. Topics covered in this volume include additive manufacturing, the economic impact of such innovations on Japan’s aging society, a multi-stakeholder analysis for business founders in Tunisia, and the sustainability of solar technology in Namibia, among others.

Dr Elmar Streurer is a Professor for Finance and Controlling at the University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, Germany, where he also serves as Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics. His research explores the combination of renewable energy and entrepreneurship to develop business models and opportunities in rural areas of developing countries. He received his PhD from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1996, and is the author of the book Ökonometrische Methoden und maschinelle Lernverfahren zur Wechselkursprognose.

Emanuel Herrmann is a Research Assistant at the University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, Germany. His research focuses on transportation in city logistics and crowd logistics in order to develop new models and concepts to reduce the cost of last mile logistics. He is currently a PhD student at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

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