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Mecanisme ale inovaţiei în asistenţa socială
The mechanisms of innovation in the social services system

Author(s): Daniel Arpinte
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: social innovation; social services; innovation factors; institutional development.

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the role of innovation in designing new models of social intervention, and its impact in the process of institutional development. The first part analyses the factors which encouraged a high level of innovation in Romanian social services system, the main sources of innovation and the key stages of its dynamics. In the second part the main types of innovation are presented, being analysed relevant cases for each of them.

  • Issue Year: XX/2009
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 91-99
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian