Local background of the social innovations The administrative decentralisation of the political structure in Spain grants regional and local councils a set of legislative and executive competencies which, in the case of social welfare services, are very far-reaching (Aguilar et al. 2011). This decentralisation of competencies has given considerable leeway to each territory in the…
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Teresa Montagut, Gemma Vilà, Marta Llobet and Sebastià Riutort (Universitat de Barcelona)
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Local background of the social innovations Innovation is defined in many ways by social scientists, people connected with business or technology. In short, it is a way to improve the systems that already exist, making them better, faster and cheaper (Iuri and Kuhn 1998). The meaning of “better, faster, cheaper” depends on the area of…
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Renata Siemieńska, Anna Domaradzka and Ilona Matysiak (Warsaw University)
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