Todor Stoyanov
Keywords: social enterprises, forest bioeconomy, credit cooperatives
Abstract
The aim of the present article is to study the current conditions for the development of the cooperatives in Bulgaria as a social innovative approach in the field of bioeconomy and to show the positive effect of their use and development. It also aims to show that forest consumer cooperatives have long been working as socially oriented enterprises in the forest bioeconomy sector. A cooperative model was developed as a social enterprise in the forest bioeconomy sector, showing the pros and cons of the legislation in the field.