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This chapter is devoted to a specific case of sharing economy in Milan, broadening the vision to include the influence that infrastructuring processes have not only on the complex socio-technical system (scale-up) but also on a single case at local level (scale-down), supporting the authors in a reflection of the impact of the sharing economy on management innovation. We describe Italianway, a Milanese platform that links visitors with the local communities and services to offer an authentic experience of the city; in the creators’ words: “Live like a local, welcome to Milan”. This chapter illustrates the favourable factors of the wider contemporary scenario on local economic growth, enabling the introduction of innovative solutions into a traditional economic system through the hybridisation of the sharing economy approach with and within a given milieu.
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In this chapter, the authors use the word “people” to refer to groups of lay individuals not trained in social research, such as clients, customers, users or citizens, according to research branches.
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Founder of the P2P Foundation, https://p2pfoundation.net.
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Smorto, G. (2017) A critical assessment of European Agenda for the collaborative economy. In Depth Analysis for the IMCo Committee. European Parliament. Citation from the abstract of the document.
This analysis has been commissioned by Policy Department A for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies upon request of the European Parliament ́s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection “to provide in-house and external expertise to support EP committees and other parliamentary bodies in shaping legislation and exercising democratic scrutiny over EU internal policies”.
Retrieved from http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2016/595361/IPOL_IDA(2016)595361_EN.pdf.
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An initiative by FPA, a company dealing with the organisation of national forums and conventions addressed to public administrations, political figures, businesses, associations and citizens, and offering tools such as databases of public administrations and digital platforms. It aims to put these actors in contact with one another and to create the occasion for head-to-head discussion on the different themes (endorsement: building and strengthening political will; empowerment: internal training for public administrations; engagement: involvement of citizens and local stakeholders in the process of innovation).
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https://www.bilanciopartecipativomilano.it
An initiative in collaboration with the project EMPATIA (https://www.empatia-project.eu) funded by the research programme CAPS within Horizon 2020 and in which Milan is one of the pilot cases.
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https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/digital-economy-and-society-index-desi-2017
A composite index that summarises relevant indicators on Europe’s digital performance and tracks the evolution of EU member states in digital competitiveness.
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Authors’ adjustment from Treccani and the Oxford English Dictionary.
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De Rosa, A., Mazzarello, M. (2018). Italianway: An Entrepreneurial Innovation for Hospitality in Contemporary Cities. In: Bruglieri, M. (eds) Multidisciplinary Design of Sharing Services. Research for Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78099-3_15
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