A general overview of social oriented innovative start-up in Italy

In this work we want to present a precise type of enterprise: the “Start-up Innovativa a Vocazione Sociale†(SIaVS). These companies obviously are for profit and in order to exist they have to be registered on the Registro Imprese: an Italian web site dedicated to the Italian companies and in particular very used by the Italian Piccole Medie Imprese (PMI) and start-ups. For the registration SIaVSs -or using an English name Social Oriented Innovative Start-up (SOIS)- have to respect different rules to be admitted under the category: “start-up innovative†and then they have to satisfy other requirements in order to be classified as social. Our goal is to show a general overview of the SOISs in Italy through a descriptive analysis and also a financial analysis of the companies registered on the web site until the data of 17 October 2016. Then we will make a comparison between SOIS and the more general category of innovative start-up. Moreover we will investigate how the Social Oriented Innovative Start-ups are growing during the year. But first of all we want to clarify certain concept as what is a social enterprise, what is an innovative start-up and what is a SOIS.