Collaboration of corporates with coworking spaces: different pathways to develop innovation capabilities
研究了企业如何通过与联合办公空间合作来提升创新能力，识别出探索者、初创猎手、实施者和转型者四种合作路径，并指出联合办公空间作为开放式创新平台的作用。
Although academia has witnessed increasing interest in coworking spaces over the past decade, the corporate perspective on utilizing such spaces has not been thoroughly studied. This paper investigates corporate goals, activities, and outcomes of corporate–coworking collaboration by examining 11 different cases in which corporates engage in coworking spaces. We find that, based on their goals, corporates choose different collaboration pathways to enhance their innovation capabilities. We call these pathways explorer , startup hunter , implementer , and transformer . Coworking spaces play an essential role by hosting and orchestrating key open innovation actors, resources, and activities such as scanning, scouting, community building, co‐development, and learning. They are emerging as an open innovation platform that can trigger sensing, seizing, and transforming capabilities of corporates. Our study contributes to the innovation management and the coworking space literature and offers practical implications for both corporates and coworking spaces.