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Czech Republic has a very versatile and encouraging amount of socially entrepreneurial initiatives as we found out during our initial search in the depths of Internet. That's where we started our search. It was especially exciting for my fellow-explorer that discovered a completely new field of businesses doing things differently with society and the environment in mind.
Even though Czech laws regarding social enterprises are rather flexible at the moment (not strictly defined), it hasn't stopped many entrepreneurial minds to come up with very inspiring, innovative, environmentally friendly and inclusive business initiatives. These initiatives take different legal forms - work integration enterprises, associations, cooperatives, companies with limited liability, not-for-profit organisations (further referred to as NPOs) etc (Frankova, 2019). There are also different support mechanisms in place such as grants and loans, as well as a few mainstream banks, innovation centres and business incubators that help with subsidies, intellectual capital and/or visibility. Most of the social enterprises and initiatives that we found have a social media presence (Facebook and Instagram), beside physical websites (with e-shops allowing to purchase their products and/or services).
