Developing Makerspaces as Sites of Entrepreneurship

Hui, Julie; Gerber, Elizabeth M.

doi:10.1145/2998181.2998264

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“…Toombs (2015) shows how makerspaces thrive on feelings of belonging as well as skill sharing. Hui and Gerber (2017) discuss how, looking beyond purely technical skills, spaces can promote entrepreneurship by leveraging community-based values of social support, exploration and empowerment. These studies suggest the potential for incorporating an initiative with similar values.…”

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Platforms, Scales and Networks: Meshing a Local Sustainable Sharing Economy

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Miskelly

2019

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The Bsharing economy^has promised more sustainable use of the world's finite resources, exploiting latency and promoting renting rather than ownership through digital networks. But do the digital brokers that use networks at global scale offer the same care for the planet as more traditional forms of sharing? We contrast the sustainability of managing idle capacity with the merits of collective local agency bred by caring-based sharing in a locality. Drawing on two studies of neighbourhood sharing in London and analysis of the meshing of local sharing initiatives, we ask how 'relational assets' form and build up over time in a neighbourhood, and how a platform of platforms might act as local socio-technical infrastructure to sustain alternative economies and different models of trust to those found in the scaling sharing economy. We close by proposing digital networks of support for local solidarity and resourcefulness, showing how CSCW knowledge on coordination and collaboration has a role in achieving these ends.

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Section: Six Examplesmentioning

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Platforms, Scales and Networks: Meshing a Local Sustainable Sharing Economy

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Miskelly

2019

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“…Previous research encourages us to explore the fundamental infrastructures for tech entrepreneurship in terms of location (Krishna et al 2004, Lindtner et al 2015, community (Hui and Gerber 2017), funding (Lins and Lutz 2016), digital platforms (Belleflamme et al 2014), and historic-political infrastructures (Akrich 1992). By exploring the case of tech entrepreneurship in Palestine, it is evident that the geographical location has a major impact on the infrastructural landscape which shapes the everyday concerns of the entrepreneurs.…”

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“…The infrastructures of communities include the availability of education and training possibilities. Communities that foster tech entrepreneurship value social support, exploration, and empowerment, supporting entrepreneurs in developing relevant skills and self-efficacy (Hui and Gerber 2017). To fully succeed in the tech world, entrepreneurs need strategic skills and the ability to perform a range of diverse tasks, such as publicity, communication, manufacturing, management (ibid), as well as installing hardware, fixing cables, understanding policies, and dealing with emerging challenges.…”

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“…Infrastructures of global digital platforms have been growing in the last decade, with platforms such as Google and PayPal, enabling interactions across geographical distances. Furthermore, crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter, were created to support not only financial flow, but also the creation of future communities of customers (Belleflamme et al 2014); while other platforms, such as Etsy, were created to enable start-ups to distribute all types of small artisan products (Hui and Gerber 2017). Thus, the digital distribution of technological products is made possible through these digital global platforms.…”

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“…From the literature, we identified five types of infrastructures that are crucial for the functioning of global tech entrepreneurship. These include infrastructures of location (Bjørn et al 2017, Welter et al 2017, infrastructures of community (Hui and Gerber 2017), infrastructures of funding (Lins and Lutz 2016), infrastructures of digital platforms (Belleflamme, Lambert et al 2014), and infrastructures of politics and history (Bijker et al 1987). Furthermore, we identify additional types of infrastructures that are crucial for enabling entrepreneurs to reach both local and global users as well as investors.…”

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Infrastructural Inaccessibility

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Boulus-Rødje

2018

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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In this paper, we examine the fundamental and taken-for-granted infrastructures that make tech entrepreneurship possible. We report from a longitudinal ethnographic study of tech entrepreneurs situated in occupied Palestine. By investigating this polar case of tech entrepreneurship, we identify critical infrastructures which are otherwise invisible and go unnoticed. We propose infrastructural accessibility as a method to identify available and absent infrastructures in concrete trans-local situations. Infrastructural accessibility leads us to identify multiple dimensions of critical infrastructures necessary for the success of tech start-ups. This includes infrastructures related to location, community, funding, digital platforms, politics, and history. Our study shows how these multiple dimensions of infrastructural accessibility shape the everyday practices of tech entrepreneurs. Furthermore, our study reveals how Palestinian tech entrepreneurship is characterized by infrastructural inaccessibility due to missing infrastructures related to mobility, legal frameworks, payment gateways, and mobile Internet. Infrastructural inaccessibility seriously limits tech entrepreneurs' potential to succeed in creating a long-term sustainable tech industry.

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Contributions of Academic Makerspaces to Design Education

Wilczynski

2019

Design Education Today

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Developing Makerspaces as Sites of Entrepreneurship

Cited by 58 publications

References 67 publications

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Platforms, Scales and Networks: Meshing a Local Sustainable Sharing Economy

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