Collaborative Spaces at Work

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Tensions in experimental spaces for creative collaboration in front-end pharmaceutical research

Birke Otto, Elke Schüßler and Katharina Zangerle¹

Introduction

Viewing creativity as a social endeavor, scholars have paid attention to the importance of organized spaces for creative collaboration. As coworking spaces, fab labs, technology hubs, or cultural centers, we often find these spaces deliberately designed as an open and accessible place to facilitate creative encounters between different actors (e.g., Capdevila, 2015; Cirella & Yström, 2018; Lange & Schüßler, 2018; Schmidt & Brinks, 2017). However, collaborative creative spaces such as research labs, music studios, or temporary project groups within organizations ...