Abstract:

Recently, the global community has spoken more and more in favor of the necessity of the functioning and development of social entrepreneurship, as one of the instruments of solving social and economic problems and a prerequisite of the innovative development of regions. The development of social entrepreneurship in Ukraine has become possible under the conditions of enhancing the role of economically active participants of the national market in supporting socially vulnerable categories of citizens, as well as in solving socially significant problems which resulted from the complicated geopolitical situation and the process of decentralization. However, spreading social enterprises in Ukraine is hampered by the absence of legislation which would regulate their activities, as well as by the vagueness of the key concepts and criteria of identifying these enterprises.