Invitation to the Development Working Group (DWG) sponsored by the SIG
Entrepreneurship (03)
“Fablab, coworking space, start-up accelerator…
New spaces of cooperation?”
June 3th 2016, 17:00 - 18:30
Université Paris-Est Créteil – Metro L8 ‘Créteil Université’
Building ‘Maison des Langues’ – Room 202
Organizers
Julie FABBRI (Ecole polytechnique i3-CRG, France)
Anna GLASER (Novancia Business School, France)
Hélène BUSSY-SOCRATE (Warwick Business School, UK)
Speakers
Sihem BEN MAHMOUD-JOUINI (HEC Paris, France)
François-Xavier DE VAUJANY (Paris-Dauphine University PSL, France)
Thierry RAYNA (Novancia Business School/Imperial College London, France/UK)
In line with the EURAM 2016 theme “Manageable Cooperation?“, we propose a development
working group (DWG) on new collaborative practices and spaces for business development.
Scholars and practioners will discuss together about new places of work like coworking
spaces, fablabs, hackerspaces, start-up accelerators, innovation labs... whether they are
independent, academic, public, or corporate entities. Such new multi-enterprises workspaces
recently emerged to support more mobile and flexible ways of working, but their impact on
occupants has received few explorations yet in the literature. Our objective is to propose new
avenues of research on the topic.
This DWG will be organized around a roundtable with three high-level scholars’ interventions
and discussion with the participants.
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“Fablab, coworking space, start-up accelerator…
New spaces of cooperation?”
Julie FABBRI, Anna GLASER, Hélène BUSSY-SOCRATE
Entrepreneurs particularly need to develop their networks (Burt, 2002) to fight against
isolation and to legitimate their emerging activities (Messeghem & Sammut, 2014; Rice,
2002). In consequence, they are eager to locating their activities in collective spaces that
enhance exchanges and networking strategies, such as business incubators (Hackett & Dilts,
2004; Hansen, Chesbrough, Nohria, & Sull, 2000; Rice, 2002).
Nowadays, more and more entrepreneurs are turning to coworking spaces (Fabbri & CharueDuboc, 2013; Salovaara, 2015; Spreitzer, Bacevice, & Garrett, 2015), to fablabs and
makerspaces (Capdevila, 2014; Suire, 2014), to hackerspaces (Lallement, 2015)... Thus, one
may wonder if these new workspaces play a role in supporting entrepreneurs to develop their
networks, to prototype more quickly, to raise funds easily. Do they transform the way
entrepreneurs learn? To what extent may they induce new forms of collaboration across
organizational boundaries and open innovation processes? How can we measure if they
participate to the growth of SMEs and start-ups? How can entrepreneurs use their localization
in those kind of workspaces to accelerate their developments? What is the role played by
artefacts and new technologies in those workspaces? What about virtual new workspaces?
It seems important to focus on the localization choice of entrepreneurs and SMEs and to
consider the impact it may have for them, as entrepreneurial project leaders and for the
development of their entrepreneurial ventures. The roundtable we organize in this DWG is an
opportunity to unite theory and practice around these topics from different perspectives and
based upon various fieldworks.
Evolution of innovation and creativity practices in large established
firms: new spaces for new methods
Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini, HEC Paris
The main point of this intervention consists in understanding the
increasing numbers of innovation labs in dedicated corporate spaces
and their role in the overall creativity and innovation processes of
large established companies. Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini will focus
on workspaces such as Corporate Garages, Creativity Rooms, Design
Centers, etc. that embody some of these new practices and methods
(e.g. design thinking, lean start-up, etc.) and emphasis the potential of
transformation of these spaces for the entire company they belong to.
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Work and workplace transformations: new places, new mobilities
François-Xavier de Vaujany, Paris-Dauphine University PSL
This second intervention deals with work and workplace
transformations in the context of the fast-growing phenomenon of the
sharing economy. François-Xavier de Vaujany will explain that new
collaborative spaces represent a new intermediation mode between
private and professional lives, design and exploitation processes,
organisations and communities, single-handed and collective
entrepreneurship, that foster collaborative practices and value cocreation.
The revolution of 3D printing technologies
Thierry Rayna, Novancia Business School & Imperial College
London
The third intervention states that the major technological revolution of
3D printing technologies impacts product and process innovation as
much as business models. Thierry Rayna will particularly discuss the
changes brought about by online 3D printing platforms in co-creation
processes and user involvement.
Do not hesitate to write to us to indicate your intention to participate:
[email protected] or [email protected].
Feel free to forward this call to your friends and colleagues. Thanks for your interest, and we
look forward to seeing you in Paris!
Julie, Anna, & Hélène
This DWG relies on a nascent global network “Research Group about
Collaborative Spaces” (RGCS) that has been set up in November 2014. It
is focused on the places, spaces and communities at the core of the
emerging collaborative economy. Its ambition is to encourage research
projects and conversations on the situated practices and processes at the
heart of value creation in organisations, in and among several cities: Paris
& Lyon/Grenoble (France), London (UK), and Montreal (Canada), and society at large. The
DWG objective is then to connect with a community of researchers that would engage in such issues.
To know more: https://collaborativespacesstudy.wordpress.com/; @collspaces.
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Venue: Université Paris Est Créteil
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