From hackers to start-ups: Innovation commons and local entrepreneurial activity
研究德国县域黑客空间对数字创业的影响，发现长期存在的黑客空间与地区数字创业水平正相关，尤其在城市集聚区。
In hacker communities, tech-savvy pioneers collect and share information on nascent technologies. The pool of information shared among users reduces uncertainty about digital technology, but, first and foremost, it reveals entrepreneurial opportunities to users in the community, which is a central tenet of innovation commons theory. In this paper, we are first to explore the role of local hackerspaces for digital entrepreneurship in German counties using cross-sectional time series data. We find that longer-lasting hackerspaces are strongly correlated with the level of digital entrepreneurship in regions, particularly in agglomerations and urban contexts.