La performance des lieux de co-création de connaissances: le cas des FabLab

Rapahël Suire
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Rapahël Suire: CREM, UMR CNRS 6211, University of Rennes 1, France

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Abstract: If FabLab (Fabrication Laboratory) is nowadays a huge phenomenon their performance based on their socio-economic embeddedness is still an open research question. From an original world database (N=48), we show that production of documented projects and transformation of those projects into new company is a function of interactions between FabLab and its innovative eco-system. In particular, everything remains equal, interactions with peripheral and explorative actors lead to higher level of creativity and documented projects. New company creation appears to be significantly higher when FabLab is an intermediary platform or a middleground between these peripheral actors and a core of bigger companies more oriented in exploitation and seeming harvesting FabLab’s creativity.

Keywords: FabLab; platform; middleground; networks; knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D20 L10 O32 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-10
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