Funding agency: MIUR (The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research)

Principal investigators: Prof. Giuseppe Scellato and Prof. Elisa Ughetto (Politecnico di Torino)

Years: 2017-2021

Amount: 75,000 Euros (Politecnico di Torino)

This project is funded by MIUR under the Programma Nazionale di Ricerca (PNR) D.D. 2135/2016 “Social impact finance-un rete per la ricerca”. The research project is developed together with Università “La Sapienza”, Università “Tor Vergata” (National Coordinator), Università di Macerata, Università di Catanzaro “Magna Graecia”. The research activity at Politecnico di Torino is aimed at developing a detailed description of social impact venture capital funds (SIVCs) worldwide, in terms of their geographical location, target investment areas, investment size, target industries, investment stages and impact objectives. The project also presents a first evidence about the economic and financial status of the companies invested by SIVCs. The project also explores how SIVCscommunicate their identities and actions to their external stakeholders and how they differ in terms of their social linguistic positioning and linguistic distinctiveness.