Whose Tech? Whose City?
In response to reviews of The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy, the author emphasizes that every "new" economy, including the "innovation" economy connected to high-tech industries, depends on building local, spatially and socially embedded ecosystems that ar...
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| description | In response to reviews of The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy, the author emphasizes that every "new" economy, including the "innovation" economy connected to high-tech industries, depends on building local, spatially and socially embedded ecosystems that are not only regional districts or clusters of related producers, but social constructions of discursive, organizational, and geographical spaces. A rich case study of a single, local, tech ecosystem reveals a multidimensional "innovation complex" that represents the planetary urbanization of the Silicon Valley model. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-14ef6ad01c7c4e469f081cd1b6910b712022-12-22T02:25:01ZengUniversity of BolognaSociologica1971-88532022-10-0116219319710.6092/issn.1971-8853/1543013771Whose Tech? Whose City?Sharon Zukin0Brooklyn College; The City University of New York Graduate CenterIn response to reviews of The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy, the author emphasizes that every "new" economy, including the "innovation" economy connected to high-tech industries, depends on building local, spatially and socially embedded ecosystems that are not only regional districts or clusters of related producers, but social constructions of discursive, organizational, and geographical spaces. A rich case study of a single, local, tech ecosystem reveals a multidimensional "innovation complex" that represents the planetary urbanization of the Silicon Valley model.https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/15430innovationurban economy urban tech economyinnovation complexentrepreneurship and innovation |
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| title | Whose Tech? Whose City? |
| title_full | Whose Tech? Whose City? |
| title_fullStr | Whose Tech? Whose City? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Whose Tech? Whose City? |
| title_short | Whose Tech? Whose City? |
| title_sort | whose tech whose city |
| topic | innovation urban economy urban tech economy innovation complex entrepreneurship and innovation |
| url | https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/15430 |
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