Unit ADMINISTRATIVE LAW OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

Course
Legal services
Study-unit Code
A002979
Curriculum
Law and technologies
Teacher
Antonio Bartolini
Teachers
  • Antonio Bartolini
Hours
  • 42 ore - Antonio Bartolini
CFU
8
Course Regulation
Coorte 2025
Offered
2026/27
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
THE LEGAL MEANING OF INNOVATION
Researching innovation from a legal perspective
Innovation in economic and social sciences
In search of a legal meaning of innovation
Innovation in OECD documents
Innovation in European Union law
Innovation in the Constitution and in domestic positive law
Delimiting the legal scope of innovation
ADMINISTRATIVE DILEMMAS AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
The dilemmas of innovation
Regulating, deregulating, and re-regulating innovation
Prudence and innovation
Human dignity and the dilemma of innovation
Innovation and the precautionary principle
Does a principle of innovation exist?
Technological neutrality
Sustainable development and the dilemmas of the circular economy
The dilemmas of territorial governance between planning and innovation
The dilemmas of cultural heritage: conservation versus innovation
Closed or open innovation?
Innovation and competition
The challenge of innovation for administrative law
THE ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE OF INNOVATION
Government and public governance of innovation
The role of the OECD in global innovation policies
The entrepreneurial State: a comparative law perspective
The European Union of innovation
The European organisation of innovation
Co-administering innovation
A look at Italy: innovation between the State and the Regions
Problems and prospects for innovation in Italy
Golden power and technological innovation: the protection of strategic assets in the governance of the economy
ADMINISTERING INNOVATION
INNOVATION AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTION
Innovation as an administrative function
Experimental regulation, or regulatory sandboxes
Funds, subsidies, and prizes for innovation
Pre-commercial procurement and innovation partnerships
Measures conferring an “innovative” status: medicines, start-ups, and innovative SMEs
Authorisations to carry out experimental and innovative activities
Self-responsibility regimes: the case of artificial intelligence
The emergence of new functions: cybersecurity
Administrative citizenship in the face of technological innovation: new rights and duties
INNOVATION AS A MODE OF BEING OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Innovation as a mode of being of public administration
Innovation, the organisational function of public administration, and algorithmic legality
2.1. The dematerialisation of the office
Administrative procedure and the disruptive innovation resulting from the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence: beyond algorithmic legality
The reconsideration of administrative measures in the face of innovation as a supervening circumstance: revocation
Social innovation and collaborative practices
Innovation and public services
Innovation and the NRRP
THE INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM AS A LEGAL ORDER
The enabling factors for innovation
Material and immaterial infrastructures for innovation
Education and training: innovation in primary and secondary education and the vocational education and training system; higher technological education
Universities and polytechnics: the third mission of universities and technology transfer
Venture capital: towards a financial ecosystem for innovation?
Territorial innovation systems between smart cities and smart lands
Innovation ecosystems
The innovation ecosystem as a legal order
Reference texts
A. Bartolini, Diritto amministrativo dell'innovazione tecnologica, Giappichelli Editore, 2026.
Educational objectives
To understand how administrative law supports innovation while, at the same time, controlling its potential harms.
Prerequisites
Constitunal law
Teaching methods
lezione frontale e laboratorio
Learning verification modality
oral examination

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

Code A002979
Location PERUGIA
CFU 5
Teacher Antonio Bartolini
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline giuridiche
Sector IUS/10
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

Code A002979
Location PERUGIA
CFU 3
Teacher Antonio Bartolini
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Discipline giuridiche
Sector IUS/10
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)