Team

The pilots are run by a multidisciplinary team.

Sergio España. Assistant Professor on Software for Organisational Responsibility.
Information and Computing Sciences Department; Faculty of Science; Utrecht University. He is product manager of openESEA / Show your Heart and has published several articles on this technology (see page Resources). He is member of the Social Balance Committee of XES, the Catalan Network of Solidarity Economy (see page Stakeholders and projects). He has investigated impact measurement methods from various perspectives. For instance, the wide array of available ESG accounting methods and the motivations by organisations to adopt them, the process of selecting an impact management method, assisting enterprises on defining their own impact measurement method, the possible use of more than one ESG accounting method combinedly, the use of impact measurement data for strategic management.

Niels Bosma. Full Professor on Social Entrepreneurship. Utrecht University School
of Economics; Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance; Utrecht University. Co-
founder and Chair of the Utrecht University Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. He has contributed extensively to research on social entrepreneurship and impact measurement, with a focus on entrepreneurial ecosystems and societal outcomes. His work addresses the roles of institutions and policy-making on social entrepreneurship, the national and regional differences in entrepreneurial attitude and activity, and the factors of social enterprise ecosystems that foster growth and help social enterprises thrive. He has also developed frameworks for social enterprise impact measurement, co-authoring key reports on global social entrepreneurship trends highlighting the societal effects of entrepreneurship, such as the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. These series of reports have had positive implications not only on entrepreneurship-related practice and policy-making, but also on research.

Xing Li. Post-doc researcher on Impact Management. Information and Computing Sciences Department; Faculty of Science; Utrecht University. She investigates social entrepreneurial activities at the individual, organisational, and national levels of analysis. Her work focuses on understanding the factors that lead to individual, regional, and national variance in social entrepreneurial activity and uncovering the social impact creation by social enterprises in local communities. She has conducted empirical research on social entrepreneurship in China and the United Kingdom. Her aim is to promote the development of social entrepreneurship to generate positive social impacts in society.

Arjan van Dorsselaer. PhD candidate researcher on Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Utrecht University School of Economics and School of Governance; Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance; Utrecht University. He studies the elements of social entrepreneurial ecosystems and how these influence the various scaling strategies employed by social enterprises. For example, the role of bridging social capital on the impact growth of rural or community enterprises. Besides social impact scaling, he is also interested in rural (social) entrepreneurship. His research is part of the Scentiss research project, an initiative for Boosting Social and Community-driven Entrepreneurship for the Transition to an Inclusive and Sustainable Society (see Stakeholders and projects). He aims to strengthen social and collective entrepreneurship for the transition to an inclusive and sustainable society.

Karen Góngora. Consultant and independent researcher. After working for the Mexican Government as a policy advisor for social development, she moved to the Netherlands. She obtained a PhD from the University of Twente researching on methods to assess the effectiveness of policies aimed at supporting social entrepreneurship, including grant allocations. She contributes skills such as case-study research, data analysis, public policy analysis, and impact measurement.