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    Is It Still Important Centrality?: Locational Preferences of the Software Industry in Istanbul
    (Routledge, 2024) Köse, Ş.; Lale Berköz, A.
    The software industry is one of the main driver sectors in the development of contemporary cities. The aim of this article is to analyze the location behaviors of the software industry in Istanbul with a hybrid model by determining the locations and the main factors that are effective in the location preference. Within the scope of the study, focus group interviews were conducted with 6 members of the Software Industrialists Association and a survey was conducted with 177 firm officials and the results were examined through Average Nearest Neighbor, Quartic Kernel Density, Spatial Autoregressive Model and Spatial Error Model. The findings showed that centrality is still important for the firms and most of them benefit from urban agglomeration. While the firms are clustered in the CBD and sub-centers, we have concluded that the spatial behavior patterns of the firms have also changed according to their capital size. Urban agglomeration explains the local-scale software industry in the literature but does not provide sufficient arguments to analyze it on a global scale. However, it is foreseen that the findings may vary in a particular way if the firms are examined by separating according to production manner. © 2025 ETH–Eidenössiche Technische Hochschule Zürich.
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    Super Citizens: the Power of Social Innovation in İzmir/Turkey
    (Routledge, 2025) Köse, Ş.; Velibeyoğlu, K.
    This study aims to define the characteristics of social innovators, measure the impact of social innovation, and investigate its effects on urban transformation in İzmir. The study is based on semi-structured interviews with 14 social innovators and conducted by adopting a conceptual framework. We identify the characteristics of ‘super citizens’ in the literature that can contribute to SI’s empowerment in cities. The first finding shows that these individuals are expected to have 8 characteristics: being an activist, a social entrepreneur, a mediator, having a wide network, organizing goal-oriented works, involving all actors in the process, producing new solutions focused on the subject and finally being able to keep up with the change. The second finding shows that they are the most important actors in sustaining urban development, and their projects have impacts on urban transformation from a city level to an international level. If the interaction mechanism between relevant actors is provided by the local government through the Penta-helix model, super citizens may become one of the primary stakeholders to promote SI and create a more sustainable urban development. © 2024 The European Association for the Advancement of the Social Sciences.