Skoll World Forum

The Forum is a joint venture between The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and The Skoll Foundation. Both organisations share a commitment to understanding, expanding and supporting the field of social entrepreneurship.
With a focus on learning, leverage and impact, the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship connects prominent social entrepreneurs with essential actors in the social, academic, finance, corporate and policy sectors – all working to accelerate sustainable social benefit.

About the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
The Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship was launched in November 2003 at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. The Skoll Centre exists to advance social entrepreneurship worldwide through world-class education, knowledge creation, and through brokering strategic relationships. In doing so, the Centre leverages the assets of its host School at the University of Oxford to address the defining challenges of our time. It aims to develop a research agenda that will be relevant to practitioners, policy-makers, philanthropists and those with influence on resources. The Centre acts as a network hub for social entrepreneurship, primarily through the Skoll World Forum, linking together key actors in the sector and creating new and effective partnerships for sustainable social change.

Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
The Skoll World Forum has been held annually since 2004 at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. The Forum is a co-production of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and the Skoll Foundation, Palo Alto, California.

Research
The Skoll Centre has developed a portfolio of research that is valuable to practitioners in the field. Research ranges across three main topics identified by practitioners as of key importance: governance; impact; resources. In each, a variety of scholarly work is being undertaken. This is disseminated in applied working papers and peer reviewed books and journals.
The University Network for Social Entrepreneurship seeks to build a global community of researchers, educators, practitioners and student leaders who are advancing teaching, research and action in Social Entrepreneurship. This is a joint collaboration of the Skoll Centre, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, The EMES European Management Research Network and The Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN). Visit the University Network Resource Portal to access curricular materials and link to the research database.

MBA Programme and Skoll Scholarships
The Skoll Centre is committed to nurturing the social entrepreneurs of tomorrow. As part of our provision of innovative business education, the Centre trains MBA students concerned about social change to apply entrepreneurial approaches to social problems.
Each year, the Skoll Centre awards five full scholarships to individuals working in the field who wish to enter the one-year full-time Oxford MBA Programme . Skoll Scholarships are designed to give social entrepreneurs the knowledge, skills and networks they need to turn ideas into reality; and deepen their conviction for doing so.

Further information
The Skoll Centre, Said Business School