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The chapters in this book provide exciting insights about the crossroads between social work and social innovation. These insights show that there are at least two angles to consider: the innovative power of social work in the human service domain, and the role and meaning of social work in all kinds of innovations in other areas (economy/entrepreneurship, digitalisation, ecology, housing), raising the question of what the human value of these innovations is. The first angle relates to how social work can be innovative itself, as a field of practice and an academic discipline. It includes the competencies of social workers and the innovative character of social work research. In other words: this angle highlights social workers as social innovators. The second angle brings to the fore the critical-ethical role social work can play regarding the added value of so-called ‘social innovations’ for human well-being, applying the normative framework as expressed in the international definition of social work. Another aspect considers how social work can help in creating this value by bringing in its knowledge about human needs, social relations and social quality.
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