YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Employment and entrepreneurship  155 and also encompasses the pursuit of social justice, democracy, and col- laboration between individuals and organisations (Yokoyama and Birchley, 2018: 75), while a mindset of social responsibility in the con- text of social entrepreneurship encompasses the desire to solve societal problems and establish just social relations (Bornstein in Yokoyama and Birchley, 2018: 75) and empathy (Singh and Sharma, 2018: 214). This type of social change is grounded in social and sustainable values, which social entrepreneurs must also possess (Chatterjee, Cornelissen, and Wincent, 2021). A plethora of different definitions of social entrepreneurs and the social entrepreneurship mindset are available in both academic literature and practice. These are disciplinarily, culturally, historically, and ideologi- cally driven, but they all have some common points. They most often centre around the observation that the social entrepreneur is: (1) an agent of change with a clear goal and vision, (2) addressing societal problems, (3) seeking to create social value and foster sustainability, (4) more focused on helping and caring for others than on making a profit, (5) a person with entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial qualities, (6) able to identify new opportunities in social problems, and (7) inno- vative and proactive (Brouard and Larivet, 2010). When we look at these characteristics among the young people sur- veyed, we can come to some interesting conclusions. Having a clear goal for the work, which indicates the presence of a vision that the per- son wants to realise, is very important to 45.4% of young people (see Figure 3.24). This aspect of the social entrepreneurial mindset in rela- tion to social utility fundamentally determines social entrepreneur- ship and also distinguishes it from traditional entrepreneurship (see Dees, 2001). The social benefit of the work that people do is very impor- tant to 31.8% of young people in Slovenia, which is slightly less impor- tant than having a clear vision, but this is still a large group of young people who strongly prefer a clear vision of work with a social benefit. The social component of helping others is also very important in social entrepreneurship, and here again a similar proportion of young people consider helping others to be a very important feature of work (31.6%).