ABSTRACT

This chapter reports the experiences from practicing such an approach addressing students in a business school at a Swedish university. This chapter enquires the implications of intertwining individual, organizational and regional venturing activities for university students' learning for and through social entrepreneuring, that is, venturing that is socially as well as financially sustainable. Learning as a social (inter)activity thus provides the foundations for a bridge between individual and organizational learning. The literature on regional learning usually downplays the role of the individual as an agent of change and instead focuses on structures of interrelated formal organizations and institutions. In late 2013, Linnaeus University hosted a regional conference that heralded SORIS. The conference addressed practitioners in the social economy and concerned the feasibility of and need for measuring the means for and effects of social venturing.