Technopoles are (usually) planned developments seeking to establish, in a concentrated area, innovative high-technology industry and related production, often resulting from cooperation between public and private sectors. They are promoted by governments, often in association with universities...

The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence of events that have taken place in its aftermath show that we are entering a world that is very different from the social and economic conditions that...