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21 June 2018

Financial tools for Social enterprises

Editors: Paolo Venturi (Scientific co-ordinator, Executive Director of AICCON) Sara Rago (Researcher, Manager of the Research Area of AICCON)   Project objectives FIT4SE – Financial Tools […]
21 June 2018

Impact investing for climate change

Paolo Venturi (AICCON CEO) and Giorgia Perra (AICCON Research) with the support of the Italian Sustainable Investment Forum (Forum per la Finanza Sostenibile or FFS) Some […]
22 December 2016

The role of social economy to deliver social outcomes. A social investment perspective.

This report presents the results of work package D3.3 of the project “Innovative Social Investment. Strengthening communities in Europe” (innosi). The focus of the report lies […]
4 May 2016

Approaches to social investment from the scientific perspective

This report presents the current state of research and scientific debate on the ‘Social Investment’ policy paradigm in European countries. An extensive review of literature and […]
4 April 2016

The State of the Art of Social Investment

This report is a snapshot of the state of play in 2015 of the ways in which welfare states are moving towards social investment approaches and […]
4 April 2016

Social Innovation Policies with the Involvement of Social Economy Organizations

In this paper, we investigate significant social innovation policies (related to the concept of social investment) involving the role of Social Economy organizations, and we discuss […]
4 March 2016

Social Investment in Times of Crisis: A Quiet Revolution or a Shaken Welfare Capitalism?

This report analyses and seeks to establish whether and how, in the last twenty years, the EU member countries have adopted welfare systems that incorporate aspects […]
7 September 2014

Hybridization as Systemic Innovation: Italian Social Enterprise on the Move

Paper presentato da Sara Rago di AICCON Ricerca in occasione della sesta edizione dell’International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) che si è svolta dall’1 al 3 […]
31 July 2014

Social/Civil Economy – And how it is Gradually Transforming the Economic Environment

Abstract The crisis we are living is multifaceted as it affects at least five (economic, financial, environmental, currency-related and wellbeing-related) dimensions. As such it requires solutions […]
7 March 2013

The GAS as Laboratories of Civil Economy

For four years we have been witnessing the biggest global economic crisis since the end of World War II. It is a systemic crisis that is […]