Just, Democratic, Innovative and Sustainable Industrial Planning (JUDISIP): investing on countervailing economic and industrial power

This article addresses the evolving role of the State in the economy, in the context of the renewed prominence of industrial policy. A growing awareness, in fact, is emerging that global challenges and the crises of our time call into question the very role of the State and demand outputs capable of steering economic dynamics toward socially desirable objectives. This contribution focuses on this ongoing transformation and seeks to identify the legal, economic, and financial toolkit for the revival of the planning State. It argues that this new trajectory must overcome the current neglect of societal and territorial well-being in economic planning, instead aiming at the generation of multidimensional impacts and enabling the active participation of communities in identifying needs, shaping solutions, and exercising stewardship over the implementation of economic initiatives.