Smart Social Infrastructure as the Basis for the Long-Term Development of Social Entrepreneurship: Problems and Prospects in Russia

Abstract

The article is devoted to studying the specifics of social entrepreneurship in modern conditions, as well as revealing the possibilities of smart social infrastructure in the processes of its development in Russia to achieve economic, social, and environmental goals. The authors proved that the level of digitalization achieved in the leading countries makes it possible to form a smart social infrastructure as a basis for implementing innovative activity of social entrepreneurs in solving socially significant problems. The authors proposed a conceptual scheme for using the potential of smart social infrastructure to expand the opportunities for social change on a large scale and ensure a new quality of implemented social projects. The authors found that the practice of social entrepreneurship based on the use of the potential of smart social infrastructure in Russian conditions is still fragmented: the smart social infrastructure in Russia is not fully formed; the failure to adopt a mental model based on scaling relationships using modern technologies determines the inability of social enterprises to lead in rapidly changing conditions. The authors formulated proposals to overcome the existing problems of developing smart social infrastructure that hinder the development of social entrepreneurship in Russia.