From the control room to the Googleplex: ‘Innovation needs a where’

Sharon Zukin
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Sharon Zukin: Sociology, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

Urban Studies, 2025, vol. 62, issue 13, 2706-2715

Abstract: Big Tech companies like Google have spread their priorities from city to city by integrating their products into local infrastructure and forming new public–private partnerships to manage them. This article asks what happens when co-dependence fails, and briefly reviews attempts to describe and label emerging urban-tech regimes.

Keywords: digital growth machine; Google; innovation complex; public–private partnerships; urban technology; 数字增长 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980251357551

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