The Garage in Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Four Archetypes

Cunha Miguel Pina E, Sarkar Soumodip, Rego Arménio and Gaim Medhanie ()
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Cunha Miguel Pina E: Nova SBE, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Sarkar Soumodip: University of Évora, Portugal and Alentejo Science & Technology Park (PACT), Évora, Portugal
Rego Arménio: Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School, Research Centre in Management and Economics, Portugal
Gaim Medhanie: Business Administration, 8075 Umea University , Umea, Sweden; and Oslo Business School, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway

Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 2025, vol. 15, issue 4, 725-747

Abstract: This paper explores the role of the garage in entrepreneurship and innovation. By engaging sociomaterial and symbolic views, it develops a typology that aims not to repeat an overly romantic view of the garage as the space where lone heroic entrepreneurs start their ventures in idealized seclusion from the rest of humanity nor to dismiss it as a flawed, useless idea. By discussing four archetypes, the paper complexifies the notion of the garage as a space that can be material as well as symbolic and proposes how organizations can recreate ‘garages’ in their habitual workspaces.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; garage; innovation; space; startup (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1515/erj-2024-0488

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