COULD SOCIAL INNOVATION COME FROM “TERRITORIAL PRACTICES” BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE?

This PHD thesis has as its theme the logics of social innovation with a focus on the partnership between public and private. The theme is developed from the point of view of social innovation and the Foundational Economy. The main question I asked myself is What are the factors and dynamics that are relevant from the point of view of the Foundational Economy and Social Innovation? To answer this question, I will analyze the literature on Social Innovation in the first chapter and in the second chapter I will analyze the literature on the Foundational Economy. After which I will move on to treating the empirical cases observed by me: in the third chapter I will deal with the Habitat Microaree Program of Trieste, in the fourth of the Zorgzame Burteen of Brussels and in the fifth I will deal with Olinda in Milan. The objective of this research and therefore of the thesis is to study social innovation in these areas and in particular the "territorial practices" between public and private that have been established here in the light of three theoretical frameworks: Foundational Economy, Capability approach and Capacity to aspire.Furthermore, we want to verify the hypothesis that in the suburbs, where there are hybrid "territorial practices" between public and private, which create "capability for voice" and "capacity to aspire" for its inhabitants, social innovation is produced.