Unsilencing power dynamics within third spaces. The case of Renault’s Fab Lab

Lô, Amadou; Diochon, Pauline Fatien

doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2018.11.003

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“…However, the way external knowledge flows intersect with firms' internal innovation dynamics is not well understood, and how they T A B L E 1 Three configurations of collaborative innovation spaces are recombined and integrated within hierarchical organization remains ambiguous (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990;Lô & Diochon, 2019).…”

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“…However, the way external knowledge flows intersect with firms' internal innovation dynamics is not well understood, and how they are recombined and integrated within hierarchical organization remains ambiguous (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990; Lô & Diochon, 2019). Any external CIS devoted to collective experimentation, knowledge exchange and prototyping remains a frontier between organized practices and less conventional, informal, approaches to problem solving (Monteiro et al, 2018; Suire, 2019).…”

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Which types of firm use collaborative innovative spaces?

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Collaborative innovation spaces (CIS) can bring together multiple actors to enhance creativity, collaboration and knowledge exchange, sometimes leading to innovation. In this paper, we suggest that CIS can be categorized into three broad types (internal to the firm, external and virtual) and that each type is related to innovation processes, knowledge‐sourcing and geographic context in specific ways. Our results, based on an original firm‐level survey, reveal that there is heterogeneity with respect to firm attributes and innovation activities associated with different types of CIS. In particular, whilst innovation is associated with the use of CIS in general, radical and technological innovations are more strongly associated with internal CIS, whereas smaller firms tend to use virtual CIS. External CIS, whilst not associated with technological innovation, are associated with high‐tech firms. CIS use does not vary across geographic context. These results emphasize the importance of in‐person, internal, CIS for radical and technological innovation and the need to distinguish between different types of CIS in order to understand how each is associated with different types of innovation, knowledge‐sourcing and firm.

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Which types of firm use collaborative innovative spaces?

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“…The activity of producing by adding material (AM) instead of removing it, through 3D printers in which objects are generated by stratification and addition of material, is a revolutionary aspect of prototyping techniques. In addition to the possibility of creating more diversified products with different geometries, the possibility of redefining the activities of the production and logistics processes is offered, new professional figures in the area of manufacturing may be created, new "prototyping platforms for exploration, innovation, invention and learning, providing stimulation for entrepreneurship" [49] as is the case with Fab Labs, which despite developing in a social context, are gradually penetrating the industrial context, in companies such as Airbus, Safran, Airliquide, Orange, and above all at Renault [50,51], which has pioneered the implementation of a corporate Fab Lab [52,53].…”

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“…It is a space with a marked social character that offers accessible manufacturing tools and, sometimes, it is conceived as an appropriate platform to quickly start prototyping and development processes of any type of object [74]. In addition, Fab Labs can be incubated by already mature companies, which intend to create laboratories with social, educational, research, and dissemination of their products and services, just like Renault, which is a pioneer in the industrial sector in the development of its own Internal Fab Lab [50]. Increasingly, with respect to their service portfolios, many of them appear to be working likewise to other existing concepts of innovation intermediation such as living laboratories, fab laboratories, business incubators, and co-working spaces [75].…”

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The Importance of Fab Labs in the Development of New Products toward Mass Customization

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The idea of developing Fab Labs (Fabrication Laboratories) was originated by Neil Gershenfeld of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Bits and Atoms in 2006, where it signaled the start of a new era that is changing the world economy by breaking down the boundaries between the digital and physical worlds. The Portuguese Fab Labs are analyzed and a subsequent comparison with others European countries and in the USA was made. This comparison is based on aspects of the profile, the knowledge, the services, and the users. The survey was made by questionnaire, where the Portuguese version of it was adapted from another one disseminated at European level and in the USA, created in connection with a doctoral thesis in Italy. There are 25 active Fab Labs in Portugal, of which 16 responses were obtained and considered valid, so they represent the sample of our study. The results show that the Portuguese Fab Labs are in an embryonic phase with few associated or registered users. Portuguese Fab Labs have areas of work and investment capacity in machinery and technology similar to those of other European countries. However, in terms of turnover, there is a big difference between Portugal and some of the European countries, with American Fab Labs having completely different realities from the European ones. This work is relevant because it compares the Fab Labs of developed countries with those of Portugal. To overcome the difference in good practices existing in other countries, the Portuguese Fab Labs need: (1) better publicity, as well as more support for volunteer workers at Fab Labs, so that more ideas will appear and therefore more products; (2) the facilitation of the use of Fab Labs to have more volunteer workers, who must receive experimental courses, in order to make the best use of the available equipment; (3) evolution, from the current subtractive manufacturing to the additive manufacturing looking for innovation; (4) improved quality, ergonomics, and safety in the design of their own products; (5) and on the part of those responsible, therecognition, dissemination, and celebration of the best ideas that have turned into good products, in order to spread good practices.

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“…Third spaces are places beyond the home (the first place) and work (the second place)(Lô & Diochon, 2019); these spaces are characterized by an unconventional, inclusive, and permissive social context where individuals can hold conversations with others(Kingma, 2016;Oldenburg, 1989). Traditional examples of third spaces are as follows: cafes, hair salons, bars, and so forth.…”

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