7 THE ITALIAN LAW JOURNAL NO. 1 (2021) Innovation Partnerships and Italy’s Participation in the European Space Economy Plan by Leonello Marraccini The present study intends to analyse the development process of the Space Economy, firstly at EU level, so as to subsequently examine the characteristics, especially the legal ones, that characterise the Italian Plan for the Space Economy, for the implementation of which the Innovation Partnership was used, in particular for the enactment of the Mirror GovSatCom Programme. DOI 10.23815/2421-2156.ITALJ ISSN 2421-2156