Boosting Social Enterprise Development : Good Practice Compendium Social enterprises are long standing agents of inclusive growth and democratisation of the economic and social spheres and they have proved resilient to economic adversity all the while addressing socio economic challenges in innovative ways re integrating people back to the labour market and contributing to overall social cohesion. This compendium derives policy lessons for boosting social enterprises from the analysis of 20 initiatives in several EU member countries covering a range of policy areas from legal frameworks finance market access and support structures to education and skills.