Cardiff Metropolitan University
Browse

Co-working spaces for promoting entrepreneurship in sparse regions: the case of South Wales

Download (395 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2022-02-28, 13:05 authored by Anita Füzi
Co-working spaces are creative and energetic places where small firms, freelancers and start-ups, who have become tired of the isolation of their home offices and the distractions of their local coffee shops, can interact, share, build and co-create. Based on the existing literature and under the wider definition of co-working spaces, IndyCube and the Welsh Innovation Centre for Enterprise (Welsh ICE) can be identified as such in South Wales. These spaces provide support (moral, emotional, professional, financial) and facilities (infrastructure) to enable entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses. This paper aims to provide an empirical exploration of whether co-working spaces can promote entrepreneurship in regions with sparse entrepreneurial environments by creating the hard infrastructure particularly designed in such a way that the soft infrastructure necessary for entrepreneurship can also emerge.

History

Published in

Regional Studies, Regional Science

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Citation

Fuzi, A. (2015) 'Co-working spaces for promoting entrepreneurship in sparse regions: the case of South Wales', Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2(1). DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2015.1072053

Print ISSN

2168-1376

Cardiff Met Affiliation

  • Cardiff School of Management

Cardiff Met Research Centre/Group

  • Welsh Centre for Business and Management Research

Copyright Holder

  • © The Authors

Language

  • en

Usage metrics

    Welsh Centre for Business and Management Research - Journal Articles

    Licence

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC