{"id":557,"date":"2023-08-01T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coopreneur.top\/?page_id=557"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:27:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coopreneur.no\/index.php\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>About Coopreneur<\/h1>\r\n<p>Coopreneur AS is a non-profit limited company (no dividends to shareholders). Any profits are ploughed back into the company to further pursue its purpose. Namely to show how Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship can be a vehicle for new ways of addressing social, economic and environmental problems. This is so far reflected in 3 initiatives (see more in respective menus):<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>Promoting the Community Wealth Building model as a vehicle to operationalise Economic Democracy, (Re-) Localization of the Economy and a Real Circular Economy<\/li>\r\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/coopreneur.no\/index.php\/en\/course-overview\/\">Scalable Course &amp; Business Model Canvas for Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<h4 class=\"page-title\" title=\"CareBank App\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mentor2mentor.no\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CareBank App<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>About the undersigned: Master, Social sciences (geography, political science and social economy). Worked with development issues in Africa and Asia for a decade (1990s). Co-started and worked as general manager of a development-oriented Internet Service Provider in Colombo, Sri Lanka (1996-through 1999). Worked with environmental information in Norway in the 2000s.<\/p>\r\n<h4>Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship as applied here<\/h4>\r\n<p>The above-mentioned course set-up has a thorough discussion of the term and identifies four types of social entrepreneurship. Suffice to note here the following (simplified) distinction:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>&#8216;Entrepreneurship&#8217; is usually linked to purely commercial companies. For &#8216;social entrepreneurship&#8217;, however, the social objective is typically built into the core of the business model. Far-reaching forms for social entrepreneurship will include goals for system change where economic, social and environmental management responsibilities are combined and operationalized (see more <a href=\"https:\/\/coopreneur.no\/index.php\/en\/a-systems-approach\/\">here<\/a>, section G. &#8216;tools for system change&#8217;).\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>&#8216;Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship&#8217; as understood here is a form of &#8216;joint social entrepreneurship&#8217;, i.e. there is more than one entrepreneur involved in a new initiative or enterprise. The roots here can be found in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/coopreneur.no\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1076&amp;action=edit&amp;classic-editor__forget&amp;classic-editor\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Commons<\/span><\/strong>,<\/a> <\/em>shortly summarised as follows:<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><em>\u00a0A social system for the long-term management of resources that ensures shared values \u200b\u200band identity. This &#8216;community identity&#8217; can be based on geography, as in a local community\/region, but also include communities of interest that can be anything from local to global (often linked together in digital networks at different geographical levels).<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em>Originally, the term &#8216;Commons&#8217; originates from the Middle Ages, describing how local communities used and managed land and resources as commons &#8211; for common use and exploitation. Today, the term is used not only for physical commons, but also for created, new resources such as knowledge, computer codes, goods, services, etc.).<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Cooperative social entrepreneurship uses a <u>collective toolkit<\/u> that involves an extension of traditional cooperative principles (see also section F. on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/coopreneur.no\/index.php\/en\/a-systems-approach\/\">this webpage<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on how today&#8217;s cooperatives need to be revitalized) But the cooperative rationale, illustrated below, remains:<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-127 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/coopreneur.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Hvorfor-agere-kollektivt-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><em>When many people join together, individual risk is reduced, the bargaining position is strengthened, and &#8211; not least &#8211; the potential for positive change increases. Here, collective and personal benefit coincide!<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Image credit: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seedsforchange.org.uk\/workersco-ops.pdf\">https:\/\/www.seedsforchange.org.uk\/workersco-ops.pdf<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>\u201cThis work is anti-copyright.\u00a0Feel free to copy, adapt, and distribute it as long as the final work remains anti-copyright\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>The focus on economic democracy, real circular economy and (re)localisation of the economy means that social entrepreneurship here gets a clearer value-based anchoring and means of operationalisation. As an example, and as first noted on the front page, a new template for circular businesses can replace Osterwalder and Pigneur&#8217;s &#8216;Business Model Canvas&#8217;, the latter more suitable for purely commercial business models within the linear economy.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Helge Selrod<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-375\" src=\"https:\/\/coopreneur.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/epostAdr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"45\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<div id=\"52AD2192_191A_4A25_6BDF_CC50FCFD217A\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"52AD2192_191A_4A25_6BDF_CC50FCFD217A\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"52AD2192_191A_4A25_6BDF_CC50FCFD217A\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"52AD2192_191A_4A25_6BDF_CC50FCFD217A\">\u00a0<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Coopreneur Coopreneur AS is a non-profit limited company (no dividends to shareholders). 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