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Smart Cities and Innovation Partnership

A New Way of Pursuing Economic Wealth and Social Welfare

Andrea Castelli

DOI https://doi.org/10.21552/epppl/2018/3/7

Keywords: Public procurement, Europe 2020 Strategy, Directive 2014/24/EU, Innovation partnership, Smart Cities


In the last decade, the Smart Cities debate has been characterized by a continuous and significant development, giving rise to a wide range of definitions with the purpose of identifying the exact perimeter of the phenomenon. This included determining the processes needed to transform an urban agglomeration into a ‘smart’ city through the development of new technologies and innovation with a social purpose. With the intent of pursuing those targets and creating a model of organization designed to evaluate problems linked to the environmental protection and commercial evolution (and, as a result, to increase the quality of life of people that live in it), the EU introduced a new plan of development (the Europe 2020 program) encouraging public administrations to extend the use of instruments that were already part of the European Union legal system (like the Pre-commercial Procurement, a kind of public-private partnership) and to test new ones, like innovation partnership, introduced by Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement. This paper aims at analysing the impact of innovation partnership in the European countries, with particular reference to Italy, considering also a comparative perspective between different approaches on the evolution and development of Smart Cities.
Keywords: Public procurement; Europe 2020 Strategy; Directive 2014/24/EU; Innovation partnership; Smart Cities

Italian Trainee Lawyer specializing in public contracts, procurement procedures, public-private partnerships and environmental law; Graduated in Law at the University of Turin, Law Department. For correspondence: <mailto:andre.caste24@gmail.com>.

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