Third places, the connective fibre of cities and high-tech entrepreneurship
利用瑞典斯德哥尔摩的微观数据和200多家初创企业电话访谈，发现第三场所（如咖啡馆、公园等）对周边高科技初创企业数量有显著影响，对城市创新和经济增长有重要作用。
Urban ‘third places’ foster informal interactions and face-to-face contact that is critical to the development of new innovations and start-up businesses. Our research utilises extensive microdata in combination with telephone interviews with over 200 start-up companies in Stockholm, Sweden. Our findings indicate that access to third places has a significant impact on the number of new high-tech start-ups (both by entrepreneur place of residence and work) in their vicinity. This suggests that third places play a demonstrable role in innovation and economic growth.