My university in Ecuador is hardly investing in coworking as an innovative place for student to develop their business, professional and human skills. What do you think?
Dear Milan B. Vemić,
Thank you for your answer. I still think that theoretically coworkings are great places to create new things and work together. Nonetheless, I am not so sure about this in the "practical view", I haven't found too many succesful examples about it.
Best Regards
It think it should be considered as an opportunity, but to be effective, it needs some kind of periodical interaction and the targets must to be the same. It needs commitment from both sides with its targets as well with the main goals. The communications between the sided should be clear for everybody. By doing that, it can be an opportunity. Personally, I took part in some collaborations, a major number of that were unsuccessful, but, we got good results in the collaborations that worked.
Dear Paulo Ricardo Batista Mesquita
It's awesome that you have participated in coworking experiences in your university. In ours is too soon to know the results, therefore still a lot of uncertainty....
Thank you again.
Dear Angel
I think that strong distinction between an actual coworking model or other types of collaborative workspaces is needed in order to build up the environment where your students would interact and generate certain outputs. Coworking does not stand merely for a shared office environment, but for community of individuals who form project and collaborative orientated networks based on trust, cooperation and resource sharing. There has been various attempts to incorporate a coworking unit at different universities here in Europe, but many of them failed (in terms of being left empty or used for other purposes then to push students towards forming a project network for example). Thus, mediation mechanisms are essential to achieve positive results and form a cooperative community of students. If you'd like to know more, I would suggest reading the following papers:
Bouncken, Ricarda B. "University coworking-spaces: Mechanisms, examples, and suggestions for entrepreneurial universities." International Journal of Technology Management77, no. 1-3 (2018): 38-56.
Bouncken, Ricarda B., and Andreas J. Reuschl. "Coworking-spaces: how a phenomenon of the sharing economy builds a novel trend for the workplace and for entrepreneurship." Review of Managerial Science (2016): 1-18.
Merkel, Janet. "Coworking in the city." ephemera 15, no. 2 (2015): 121-139.
Rus, Andrej, and Marko Orel. "Coworking: a community of work." Teorija in Praksa 52, no. 6 (2015): 1017-1038.
Dear Marko Orel
Thank you for your answer. However, Coworkings have been recently implemented in our university, we don't have enough data nor even indicators to measure its results. I'm sharing the website: https://startups.blog.ups.edu.ec/
Additionally, I will check the literature you add.
Best regards
Dear Angel,
We have in Brazil some indicators. Give a look at CESAR (https://www.cesar.org.br/), it is the most succesful case in Brazil. May be you find some indicator as well some ideas for your own.
Best regards
Dear Angel Torres-Toukoumidis & Paulo Ricardo Batista Mesquita
Thank you for your replies. I would guess that the main problem with these centres is that are being manifested as coworking spaces, although in reality they are closer to business accelerators as they are focusing on team development and not on individuals. This saying, one of the indicators could be the frequency of interactions between individuals who are using shared space grounds on weekly or semi-weekly basis for example. Social network analysis plus a method of contextualization could therefore explain how these inner networks are developed and more importantly - what are the outputs.
A question - would you be potentially interested in looking into a model that could be applied on selected university's ground in order to develop a functional collaborative workspace? We're currently developing a work package that could be implemented in selected environments and will probably have it ready for testing somewhere next year or so.
Best regards
Marko
Dear Marko Orel, I think I made a mistake with your post, I thought we were in another discussion. You are right about CESAR, nowdays, it is a kind of accelerator for start-ups, but is started more than 20 years ago from the effort of professors of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco to help students to promote their work to small landowners and/or business mans. Their aim was to provide thecnological solutions for real day-by-day problems at low cost. Due the amount of work they developed, they called attention of market big players and created some partnerships with that companies. Nowadays, this kind of collaborations is easier in Brazil due to a new R&D law.
When you talk about individuals, I am figuring that you talking about a collaboration person to person. I am more connected to engineering/computer science related projects and in these fields, in my country, it is really difficult to find projects with students working alone.
About your question, it depends on model. But we can talk about it through messages.
Best regards,
Dear Marko Orel
Do you mean a theoretical model? An academic collaboration?
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