The Beta City: The City as a Business Matchmaker and Testing Ground (Innovations Case Narrative: Antwerp, Belgium)

Abstract

also had a tremendous social impact. With corporate dominance came corporate life: the way we defined work, the way we defined time off, the educational choices we made, the roles we attributed to youngsters and to the elderly, the way we balanced life, work, family, and leisure. In short, almost every aspect of life was fundamentally influenced by the way people functioned within the corporate structure.