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Third places and creative hubs (Virani and Malem 2015; Dovey et al. 2016) such as coworking spaces, business incubators and fablabs represent new forms of collaborative working practices that have emerged along with the rise of the creative economy and the sharing economy paradigms. Workers in third places share office space, technology, information, and also they can socialize, form social bonds and professional relationships, as coworking spaces facilitate encounters and interaction through the spatial proximity of the co-workers.
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Avdikos, V., Iliopoulou, E. (2019). Community-Led Coworking Spaces: From Co-location to Collaboration and Collectivization. In: Gill, R., Pratt, A.C., Virani, T.E. (eds) Creative Hubs in Question. Dynamics of Virtual Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10653-9_6
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