Research & innovation policy in the Italian NRRP: an evalutation of emerging challenges for multi-level governance

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Contemporary Italian Politics Pub Date : 2022-09-08 DOI:10.1080/23248823.2022.2120449

Valentina Ottone, Michele Barbieri

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ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the Research and Innovation (R&I) sector, which is widely recognized as a driver of social and economic recovery, both by public institutions and by scholars. Hence, the pandemic has prompted the European Union to implement a coordinated strategy, one that has created opportunities to support the R&I sector. The Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), developed by the Conte government and finalized by the Draghi government, represents a potential turning point in defining more suitable governance mechanisms for long-term R&I policies aimed at strengthening sustainability and resilience in Italy. Likewise, events surrounding the Plan were the formal reasons for the appointment of the Draghi government in the first place. By evaluating policy documents and by analysing the preliminary measures adopted, this article analyses the Italian case, which reveals a potential shift. Indeed, while in the pre-COVID period Italian governance was characterized by an approach focussed on the government ministries, reforms triggered by the NRRP have configured a potential multi-level governance approach to the Italian R&I framework. This study also highlights the opportunities and risks of this shift – opportunities and risks that are particularly related to the role of regions and non-state stakeholders in defining appropriate R&I policies.

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意大利NRRP的研究与创新政策:对多层次治理新挑战的评估

2019冠状病毒病(COVID-19)大流行严重影响了研究与创新(R&I)部门，该部门被公共机构和学者广泛认为是社会和经济复苏的驱动力。因此，大流行病促使欧洲联盟实施一项协调战略，该战略为支持研发部门创造了机会。由孔特政府制定并由德拉吉政府最终确定的意大利国家复苏和弹性计划(nrp)代表了一个潜在的转折点，它为旨在加强意大利可持续性和弹性的长期R&I政策定义了更合适的治理机制。同样，围绕该计划的事件是任命德拉吉政府的正式原因。通过对政策文件的评价和对所采取的初步措施的分析，本文分析了意大利的案例，揭示了一种潜在的转变。事实上，在新冠肺炎疫情前，意大利治理的特点是以政府部门为重点，而NRRP引发的改革为意大利R&I框架配置了一种潜在的多层次治理方法。本研究还强调了这种转变的机遇和风险——这些机遇和风险与地区和非国家利益相关者在确定适当的R&I政策方面的作用特别相关。

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Contemporary Italian Politics Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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期刊介绍： Contemporary Italian Politics, formerly Bulletin of Italian Politics, is a political science journal aimed at academics and policy makers as well as others with a professional or intellectual interest in the politics of Italy. The journal has two main aims: Firstly, to provide rigorous analysis, in the English language, about the politics of what is one of the European Union’s four largest states in terms of population and Gross Domestic Product. We seek to do this aware that too often those in the English-speaking world looking for incisive analysis and insight into the latest trends and developments in Italian politics are likely to be stymied by two contrasting difficulties. On the one hand, they can turn to the daily and weekly print media. Here they will find information on the latest developments, sure enough; but much of it is likely to lack the incisiveness of academic writing and may even be straightforwardly inaccurate. On the other hand, readers can turn either to general political science journals – but here they will have to face the issue of fragmented information – or to specific journals on Italy – in which case they will find that politics is considered only insofar as it is part of the broader field of modern Italian studies[...] The second aim follows from the first insofar as, in seeking to achieve it, we hope thereby to provide analysis that readers will find genuinely useful. With research funding bodies of all kinds giving increasing emphasis to knowledge transfer and increasingly demanding of applicants that they demonstrate the relevance of what they are doing to non-academic ‘end users’, political scientists have a self-interested motive for attempting a closer engagement with outside practitioners.