Problemi di policy e sperimentazione amministrativa: l’evoluzione dei processi di digitalizzazione e l’emergere degli ecosistemi di innovazione

Journal title RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione
Author/s Giancarlo Vecchi
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2023/85-86 Language Italian
Pages 13 P. 95-107 File size 216 KB
DOI 10.3280/RIV2023-085005
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The Italian public administration is confronted with two challenges peculiar to the current times, which share some common features: on the one hand, the use of ever-changing digital technologies; and, on the other hand, the role in social innovation processes involving multiple actors. In the first case, the emergence of public digital platforms calls for re-organization processes based on greater integration among internal departments, and stable relations between different administrative levels and between public and private actors. In the second case, the social demand for innovation in public services and policies leads to the development of ways of involving different actors in collaborative processes that are configured as innovation ecosystems. The thesis of this contribution underlines how the analysis of these modes of collaborative governance constitutes a relevant field for evaluation research, also because of the opportunity to integrate some significant elaborations developed by policy analysis.

Keywords: Public Sector Digitization and Digitalization; Digital Plat-forms; Government-as-a-Platform; Services Ecosystems; Innovation Ecosystems.

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Giancarlo Vecchi, Problemi di policy e sperimentazione amministrativa: l’evoluzione dei processi di digitalizzazione e l’emergere degli ecosistemi di innovazione in "RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione" 85-86/2023, pp 95-107, DOI: 10.3280/RIV2023-085005