THE ROLE OF ITALIAN SPACE INDUSTRY POLICY: PAST EXPERIENCE AND PRESENT PERSPECTIVES

摘要

Italian space industry and policy have passed by now half century of life and their interplay has significantly changed since their beginnings. For an industry characterized by an intense rate of technical and organizational innovation and a related high potential of technological spillovers, and in which competition is often hard among relatively few firms and centered on product innovation in a highly segmented space market, there is clearly a role for an industrial policy, in furthering its efficiency. This should be of course coordinated with the policy for the public demand of space services: science, defence and security, global public goods.