Territorial innovation and public politics

The rising importance of the innovation, like tool may raise competitive capacity of the enterprises, improve the welfare and contribute to environmental sostenibility, has aroused the interest of social science studies, as soon as the attention of regional development policies. Proliferate of theoretic approaches that try to expound the advantages of territories associated with their innovation capacity has conditioned the idea of innovation policies, so that their modifications have passed parallel to the concept of innovation. In this framework the main aim of this paper is to describe and value the public innovation policy in the last decades, moreover to reflect on the challenges of the new innovation policies.