Coworking Spaces as a Driver of the Post-Fordist City: a Tool for Building a Creative Ecosystem

Abstract

Collaborative places nurture creativity and efficiency of cultural and creative industries. Research in collaborative places revealed they are essential for networking and cooperation in the creative ecosystem. The results of studies focusing on competitiveness of coworking spaces and their effect on boosting entrepreneurship are rather vague. Furthermore, an awareness of how coworking spaces stimulate coworkers to engage in urban regeneration through local community initiatives is limited. Hence, this study seeks to provide an insight into coworking spaces from the organizational perspective devoted to entrepreneurship and competitiveness. Simultaneously, the paper aims to reveal synergies between creative communities and local development. The method of data gathering consists of semi-structured in-depth interviews with managers and entrepreneurs from selected countries of the EU applying the grounded theory for their analysis. The results suggest that coworking spaces indicate a boosting of the entrepreneurship of the creative class through collective projects. These activities tend to stimulate knowledge creation and open innovation in the creative ecosystem that benefit local development. Coworking spaces also represent a driving force to initiate and maintain a dialogue between the creative ecosystem and local authorities for culture-led urban development.

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“…In this context, one of the strategies mentioned most frequently was the transformation of the economic model towards a more sustainable one, which not only aims for the company's continuity but is also oriented towards the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and incorporates social and environmental elements (Allal-Chérif et al 2023;Prijadi et al 2022;Grama-Vigouroux et al 2023;Espinoza-Sánchez et al 2022;Del-Aguila-Arcentales et al 2022;Naz et al 2020;Rauter et al 2019). On the other hand, strategies such as crowdsourcing, which involves seeking ideas or solutions from a large group of people, often facilitated online (Gaofeng 2019;Pohlisch 2020;Taylor and Joshi 2019;Chu et al 2019); crowdfunding, which involves raising funds for a project by collecting small contributions from many individuals (Vrontis et al 2021;Troise et al 2020); and the development of networking spaces to promote idea sharing (Bednář and Danko 2020;Prijadi et al 2022), including the use of social networks (Sánchez-García et al 2022;Latifah et al 2022;Vrontis et al 2021), have also been employed.…”

“…Other benefits are related to the synergy among actors (Bednář and Danko 2020). This is presented when different individuals or entities work together, as the combined effort produces a greater result than the sum of their individual efforts.…”

“…Open innovation also fosters new ways of understanding customer needs (Dantas et al 2022;Prijadi et al 2022); collaboration in research and development (D'Angelo and Baroncelli 2020); and mutual value creation for participants in these processes (Milici et al 2023). Additionally, it stimulates creative ideation and idea proposals for new business models (Bednář and Danko 2020;Prijadi et al 2022).…”

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