Social Investment in welfare: A sub-national perspective

Innovative Social Investment Strengthening Communities in Europe (INNOSI) examined innovative, implementation of Social Investment at national and sub national levels across the EU. The INNOSI consortium consisted of academic research teams and ‘impact’ partners (mainly NGOs) in ten countries, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Spain, Italy and Greece. Research included econometric modelling to quantify the economic processes and outputs through which social innovation acts, and assessment of main policy-making trends using documents and interviews with key national experts. This book is concerned with the most substantial original empirical research from the project, which consists of in-depth, multi method case studies in ten EU countries of innovative, strategic approaches to delivering social investment policy at a sub national level.