Lo sperimentalismo urbano per l'innovazione sociale: il caso di Impact Hub

In the chosen case-study of Impact Hub, the social enterprise is observed in its capacity to serve as a municipal incubator for innovative social and non-social startups and as a co-working. The research will attempt to show, first of all, how the tool can support the balance between territorial, economic and social goals in legal orders, through a sui generis dynamic “public-private” and “local-supranational”. Secondly, a kind of governance based on the collaborative paradigm will be envisaged. The city, as a public entity, is then able to face with new social challenges, involving at least four further actors: private, knowledge, social organized sector, and civic innovators. Thirdly, the case-study has a European relevance. In fact, three are the cities and the national legal systems compared on the base of the single tool selected.