Ten Years in the Making: Japan’s Impact Economy Case and Film Series

Ten Years in the Making: Building Japan’s Impact Economy is a case and film series designed for academics and practitioners globally, including the Oxford Impact Investing Programmed. It features the efforts of Japan-based Social Innovation and Investment Foundation (SIIF) and its partners to build an impact investing network and impact economy over a decade.  It was developed by a research team led by Gayle Peterson,  pfc social advisors’ CEO,  Associate Fellow and Oxford Impact Investing Programme Director at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School as well as Skoll Centre Visiting Fellow.

Content

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1:What Makes Japan Special
• Chapter 2:Japan’s Wicked Problems
• Chapter 3:Deliberate Leadership
• Chapter 4:SIIF as Catalyst, Convenor,Collaborator
• Appendix A:Three Example SIBs
• Case Study:Insights into Japan’s First Impact Funds
• Appendix
• Case Study:Women as an Economic Opportunity
• Case Study:Satoyama—A0 Group Investing in Nature-Positive, Community Wealth Building
• Case Study:What is Impact: Who Decides and Why it Matters
• Conclusion