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Amazon pullout from NYC shows the perils of partnerships between higher education and business

  • Written by Jason Owen-Smith, Professor of Sociology, Executive Director, Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS), University of Michigan
Amazon's plan to locate its second headquarters in New York City fell through.Mark Lennihan/AP

Amazon’s recent decision to pull out of plans to establish a new headquarters in New York City received a lot of attention. Much of it focused on whether the big tax breaks the company would have gotten as part of the deal were fair and reasonable.

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