THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM FOR THE SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY IN THE NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ERA

Year: 2020
Published in: Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Solidaria e RIESISE Innovación Socioecológica
Cited as: Morais, L., and Bacic, M., (2020). THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM FOR THE SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY IN THE NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ERA. Revista Iberoamericana de Economía Solidaria e RIESISE Innovación Socioecológica.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM FOR THE SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY IN THE NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ERA

Nowadays, we are going through the “New Era of Automation”, with enormous and irreversible economic, financial, technological and productive advances. At the same time, we still live with a scenery of socioeconomic inequality, poverty and difficulty in having access to basic social services by larger portions of the population. In this sense, it seems appropriate to think the relationship between the current technological era and the role of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). Despite the potentialities and the advances of SSE in diverse experiences and territories, we can observe the existence of certain weaknesses. These weaknesses have a structural nature and include economic, financial, legal, accounting, access to credit, market and new technologies and labor qualification. This requires a set of actions. Thus, this article intend to treat the importance on create and strengthen the solidarity entrepreneur ecosystem, mentioning some advances, weakness and challenges.