@article {1126, title = {Collaborative Capability in Coworking Spaces: Convenience Sharing or Community Building?}, journal = {Technology Innovation Management Review}, volume = {7}, year = {2017}, month = {12/2017}, pages = {32-42}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, address = {Ottawa}, abstract = {This study explores the development of collaborative capability in coworking spaces. It is based on the perception of collaboration among 31 coworking founders, community managers, and coworkers of those spaces. In-depth interviews around the meaning of collaboration and its challenges were conducted in 14 coworking spaces located in six Asian countries. A set of factors was identified and a model was proposed based on a set of four dimensions: enabling knowledge sharing, enhancing a creative field, enhancing an individual action for the collective, and supporting a collective action to an effective execution. The {\textquotedblleft}Convenience Sharing{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}Community Building{\textquotedblright} coworking types based on Capdevila (2014) suggest different conditions under which collaborative capability develops. Convenience Sharing coworking spaces tend to foster collaborative capability through knowledge sharing and effective execution, whereas Community Building coworking spaces tend to foster collaborative capability by enhancing a creative field and individual action for the collective. Overall, this study contributes to a theoretical model for coworking spaces to help coworking founders and community managers make strategic decisions. The findings suggest that collaborative capability in coworking spaces depends on the interlacing of a set of factors along four dimensions that relate in varying degrees of intensity to a two-fold coworking space typology.}, keywords = {collaboration, collaborative knowledge work, collaborative workspaces, coworking, innovativeness}, issn = {1927-0321}, doi = {http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1126}, url = {http://timreview.ca/article/1126}, author = {Marcelo F. Castilho and Carlos O. Quandt} } @article {279, title = {The Expanding Role of Entrepreneurs in the Creation and Development of Internet Ecosystems}, journal = {Open Source Business Resource}, year = {2009}, month = {08/2009}, publisher = {Talent First Network}, type = {Articles}, address = {Ottawa}, abstract = {Technology-based ecosystems are everywhere. Consumer Internet-based ecosystems are almost always very large scale entities because the Internet has few real boundaries. The center of these ecosystems is often a large company that is a household name and has played a significant role in creating, or at least shaping, the market segment its ecosystem serves. Because of this, Internet ecosystems are often thought of as the exclusive domains of large established companies. In the past that was typically the case, but tech entrepreneurs are now increasingly able to act as the driving force behind the creation of Internet-based ecosystems. Entrepreneurs are moving into the role of ecosystem creation and development, and the established big companies are evolving to a supporting role of ecosystem enabler, investor, and operator. This article will review and contrast the roles of tech entrepreneurs with the roles of large established Internet companies in the creation and development of consumer Internet ecosystems.}, issn = {1913-6102}, url = {http://timreview.ca/article/279}, author = {Gordon Quinn} }