Building new places of the creative economy. The rise of coworking spaces Bruno Moriset To cite this version: Bruno Moriset. Building new places of the creative economy. The rise of coworking spaces. 2013. halshs-00914075 HAL Id: halshs-00914075 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00914075 Preprint submitted on 4 Dec 2013 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. 2nd Geography of Innovation International Conference 2014 Utrecht University Utrecht (The Netherlands), January 23 – January 25 Theme C. Creativity, creative class and urban development Paper presented by Bruno MORISET Associate Professor of Geography and Planning UMR 5600 EVS – University of Lyon
[email protected] Building new places of the creative economy The rise of coworking spaces Keywords: Innovation, Knowledge Economy, Digital Economy, Creative City, Coworking, Third Place, Urban Planning, Office Property Abstract The late 2000s have seen the emergence of a new kind of workplace: the coworking space. As of February 2013, 2500 spaces had been identified worldwide. This paper endeavors to situate the phenomenon within the existing theory of the creative, urban economy, and to serve as a platform for discussion and further research.