- Project name
- Social Impact Investment Research Project
- Research Theme
- The effects of social impact investments on public services provided by social enterprises and nonprofit organizations in the UK, the US, and Japan
- Research Objectives
- Conduct empirical studies on social impact investments, especially social impact bonds (SIBs), in the UK, the US and Japan
Explore how social impact investments affect governments, social sector service providers, service users, and the quality of social services in the UK and the US
Develop Japanese models of SIBs and urge Japanese governments to adopt social impact investment schemes - Research Methods
- Qualitative Survey with using semi-structural interviews
Quantitative survey with using questionnaires - Source of Funding
- This project is funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) through a grant called “Research Grants to Strategically Build a Research Infrastructure at Private Universities.”
- Duration of the Research Project
- The research project will last for five years, from April 2014 to March 2019.
- Research Project Website
- Meiji University Institute of Nonprofit and Public Management Studies. http://www.kisc.meiji.ac.jp/~inpms/projects/projectSIB/english.html
- Research Project Members
- Professor Ichiro Tsukamoto at Meiji University is responsible for this project as Head. The research group consists of 13 members, including 10 faculty members at various universities
Please see Third Party Evaluators’ Comments on our project 2014-2018 in Japan and oversea
