Vers un effet de traitement paradoxal: les fablabs comme facilitateurs « accidentels » de l’entrepreneuriat des utilisateurs ?

Stéphane Salgado and Cyrielle Vellera

Innovations, 2024, vol. N° 74, issue 2, 183-210

Abstract: Codes JEL : L26, O30 This research aims to shed light on the facilitating role of non-commercial, open-access fablabs in commercial entrepreneurship, particularly for innovations emanating from less conventional entrepreneurial figures: users. In this perspective, qualitative interviews were conducted with users-innovators/users-entrepreneurs on the one hand, and fab managers on the other. Using a process-based analysis approach (?from maker to market?), three key contributions are proposed: (1) fablabs are facilitators of user entrepreneurship but the resulting ?treatment effect? is limited, and sometimes even counterproductive; (2) commercially oriented entrepreneurship is contrary to the culture of fablabs, inducing an ambivalent ?treatment effect?; (3) fablabs? action capabilities tend to transform towards ?accidental? pre-incubation. These results enrich two theoretical fields: user entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in fablabs and provide new elements to support user entrepreneurship and to better identify the postures and capacities for action of fablabs in this field. JEL Codes: L26, O30

Keywords: User-innovators; User-entrepreneurs; Entrepreneuring; Fablab; Makers; Treatment Effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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