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Social entrepreneurship is a dynamically developing economic and social phenomenon in need of scientific understanding and legal regulation. The author of the article summarizes theoretical approaches to the definition of social enterprise, describes its “generic” characteristics. The author points out the problems of identification of economic actors as social enterprises, which are determined by the imperfection of the legal definition of social enterprise. This article is about the analysis of social enterprises activity domains, specifics of the product and the target group of consumers of social entrepreneurship.

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Vasyunina, M., Lipatova, I. (2019). On the Content of Social Entrepreneurship. In: Popkova, E. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and the Internet of Things: Prerequisites for the Development of ICT. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 826. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13397-9_57

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