Emerging social and environmental challenges require more intelligent public policies capable of connecting local needs and product/service innovations.

Political choices guided by a partial vision of the context risk generating unexpected consequences. On a regional scale, in the medium to long term, inaccurate management of development policies can generate consequences on health, the environment and the social system.

The increase in size, as well as the diversity and complexity of the data generated by the urban context require a paradigm shift in the way in which the interdependencies between service infrastructures are studied, analyzed and managed.