Abstract

This paper addresses the social enterprises’ role in social services innovation process in Romania by referring to the legal and public policy context as well as to the results of a primary and secondary research carried out by the author at the national level in 2022. The first section contains the literature review on social innovation and social entrepreneurship, the brief presentation of the theoretical framework and research methodology. The following sections mainly focus on the results of the public policy analysis, primary and secondary data analysis, including the discussion of the results by reference to the theoretical framework.