Makerspaces and Entrepreneurship: Colocation and Collaboration in the Digital Era

The papers in this symposium focus on a specific 21st-century example of the relationship between physical location, interpersonal interaction and the production of tangible commercial products: the role of local makerspaces in enabling entrepreneurial activity across the life cycle of the entrepreneurial process. Makerspaces are shared fabrication facilities, where people can use a broad combination of tools that include traditional woodworking...