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1. Introduction

Etymologically, these concepts of co-creation, cooperation and coproduction have a social sense, and these are strongly rooted with a kind of social entrepreneurship. It is a focus of creation of community and networking which it takes advantage of networking effect, so cognitive and emotional level.

When you start with your Startup you hit in a risk adventure, so, to give the best added value to your customers, you need to support you in several Partners, which will make you put a difference; you will create better key activities together, and you will give the best result to your costumers. You will make, definitely, a business network that will make, although you have not the necessary resources, training the right motor to give answer to the needs of your customers.

Let’s step, let’s review the meanings:

  • Co-creation: co-create itself, it is not registered, but if we are looking for this concepts separately; create: 1. Work wit, laborious art or craft, with a big inventiveness. The prefix co- gives us a clue to the social scope of this action and effect of creating.
  • Co-production: 1. Action co-produce. 2. Especially in film, television, music and theater, production realized in common between several companies, usually from different countries.
  • Cooperation: 1. Action and effect to cooperate. 2. On the corporate front, possibility of several companies to adopt a system of more intense integration in some areas or activities.

Let us define also the concept of entrepreneur:

  • Entrepreneur: it is somebody who, individually or collectively, is looking for the definitely Business Model, in the course of one until five years. Once he found and tested his working and performance, he will become in business man.

(image) From Startup to the Company. Adaptation of the original by Steve Blank. Own source.

A good way to stay this training module, the prefix co- and entrepreneur concept will be mixed. In this way, we give the social strength to the word entrepreneur, that is to say, when someone start, must be dynamic, you have to move your influence circle to arrive, supporting one in the other, to the objectives. This idea is in turn in the idea business model to achieve to this goals.

The contents that we are going to develop are:

  • Trends in Social entrepreneurship
  • Creation of communities and exploitation of networking. 
  • Differentiation between co-creation, coproduction and cooperation.
  • Key concepts.
  • Business applications.

This module is going to analyze how the entrepreneur manages the way of relationship with his customers, with his suppliers and with his competitors.