The research profile of Centre for Social Entrepreneurship is formulated in the following 6 points:

Interdisciplinary Research

• Research in social entrepreneurship shall take an interdisciplinary approach based on critical illustrations of how - and whether - social entrepreneurship can leverage new solutions to social welfare problems. The multidisciplinary presentation will involve various areas of knowledge, including sociology, economics, culture, history, learning and education, organization theory, subjectivity theory, etc.

Change in the Welfare Society

• The research will reveal how the welfare society is changed through social entrepreneurship. What does it mean that civil society and voluntary organizations enter into new partnerships with public and private parties? In what ways are the welfare state further developed and what potentials and problems are associated with this?

Social Innovation and Partnerships

• Research on social entrepreneurship shall reveal how innovation, stakeholder participation and partnerships can bring about social integration. What creates social renewal, under what conditions, in which stakeholders, for what purposes, collaborations, barriers and outcomes? How can the anatomy of social entrepreneurship and partnerships be described - the building blocks, differences, similarities, etc.?

Stakeholders and their Interaction and Importance

• The research must be actor-oriented and provide an insight into how different parties participate in, influence and shape social entrepreneurship. Which interaction can be observed between the various actors, including volunteers, users, professionals in private and public companies in associational and business relationships and in the development of innovative practices? 

Learning and Skills

• The research shall explore the significance that learning and skills development can have on both the creation of innovative organizations and environments and for the development of new solutions to welfare problems. How are learning and skills development incorporated and how can this support social entrepreneurship in an innovative practice with the capacity for social integration?

International Outlook

• The research shall establish an outlook to the theories as well as the practice in international social entrepreneurship. What role does social entrepreneurship play in other societies and cultures and with what organisations, characteristics, outcomes, actors and purpose? Social entrepreneurship in Denmark is positioned and its characteristics and special profile identified and presented in an international context.