The Innovation Complex by Sharon Zukin

Author:Sharon Zukin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-03-15T16:00:00+00:00

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Pipelines

Talent, Meritocracy, and Academic Capitalism

Early one morning in the Flatiron District, Matthew Brimer led me around the offices of General Assembly, the company he had founded with three partners in 2011. A slightly built man in his late twenties with tousled brown hair and a neatly trimmed beard, he wore a plaid shirt and jeans and looked like my graduate students. Like Matt, the offices seemed casual, comfortable, and surprisingly familiar.

The elevator door opened to a gently ironic greeting painted in big black letters on a long white wall: You’re here. Bicycles were hung on the wall of a coat room off the lobby. Two large, open workspaces offered tables grouped in big squares that made it easy, Matt said, for people to engage in social interaction. There was a library “with real books,” an open kitchen with coffee machines and breakfast bagels, and a door covered with black chalkboard featuring an eight-foot-tall drawing of Bill Nye “the science guy,” who hosted a popular children’s television show in the 1990s and has his own science series on Netflix now (see figures 1A and 1B).

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