Lars, The folks at DeskMag continually do great work in this area, but it is survey-based and on a global scale. See 2nd Annual Global Coworking Survey<http://www.deskmag.com/en/the-birth-of-coworking-spaces-global-survey-176> ) If you are looking for specific numbers to quote or or effects in a region, that is an entirely different story--for the past 8 or so months I have been trying to cobble together some quantitative data on this subject in my region but as you can't really measure "innovation" in units, any sort of real empirical study is incredibly difficult.
The best thing that I can say is look at the products on accelerators and incubator programmes, especially ones that utilise a coworking style environment for housing their participants. Though it is not a direct parallel there are definitely relationships and ideas that can be credited as coming directly from having a quantity of driven people in working in close proximity. DAniel [founder] LakeworkSpaces cleveland, ohio On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:55:53 AM UTC-5, lhtorres wrote: > > The New York Times carried a recent piece about Yahoo! efforts to bring > its flextime workers back in to the office. At the same time, FastCo has a > new piece out showing that businesses are looking to coworking as a > solution to productivity and encouraging professional interaction beyond > the workplace. > > I'm curious, does anyone have data about whether coworking is good for > innovation? Theory suggests it is (create density and the opportunity for > important adjacent ideas to find each other) but I wonder whether there's > any "proof"? I think this would be good information to have. > > New York Times article describing how, why Yahoo! is reining in its > homeworkers: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/technology/yahoo-orders-home-workers-back-to-the-office.html > > FastCompany article on coworking: > http://www.fastcompany.com/3004915/coworking-nextspace > > --- > Lars Hasselblad Torres > local64.com | create + play + share > > Snag our weekly newsletter here: http://ow.ly/gRyRo > > @local64vt | 802-595-0605 > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
