Harro Prins (p), Aleid Brouwer, Migchiel van Diggelen

Javier Martínez Falcó

Entrepreneurs from the creative industry are known to make extensive use of coworking spaces (Howell, 2022; Moriset, 2014). This form of working suits this industry well, as the physical proximity to other professionals in the creative industry is then small. This encourages collaboration, knowledge transfer, motivation and inspiration (Komorowski & Fodor, 2020). It is an attractive idea to allow student entrepreneurs to reap the benefits of the potential to learn about entrepreneurship within coworking spaces. Especially where the educational philosophy is based on social constructivism, as for example in case-, problem- or design-based learning (Gómez Puente et al., 2013; van Diggelen et al., 2021). To do this in the best possible way, research is needed on the entrepreneurship learning phenomenon of student entrepreneurs in a (university) coworking space.
The proposed study focuses on the concept of university coworking space. University coworking spaces have a specific composition (homogeneous in many respects) and a rapidly changing composition when working in cohorts.
Research questions are:
1) What is the conceptual difference between university coworking spaces and the commercial coworking space?
2) How does entrepreneurship learning take place within the university coworking space and does it differ from what the literature suggests about entrepreneurship learning from the commercial coworking space?
A case study is used to answer these questions. The object (case) is a university coworking space in The Netherlands where approximately 20 student entrepreneurs, active in the creative industry, have access to. Element of theoretical sampling of grounded theory is applied.
Empirical data will be collected by interviewing student entrepreneurs and observations from the coworking space.

Eduardo Sánchez-García (p), Javier Martínez-Falcó, Bartolomé Marco-Lajara, Luis Antonio Millán-Tudela

Harro Prins

The current rapid technological advances and highly dynamic markets make it necessary to understand the factors that drive the innovative performance of companies, as this is a crucial factor in boosting their competitiveness. This study investigates the influence of regional agglomeration on the innovative performance of firms, and the mediating effect of entrepreneurial orientation and inter-firm collaboration. The PLS-SEM technique is used to analyze data from the energy supply industry in Spain. The findings reveal a significant positive impact of regional agglomeration on firms' innovative performance and underscore the importance of entrepreneurial orientation as a management approach that benefits from firm location in specialized regions and is crucial for maximizing the advantages of such environments, as well as the value of cooperative relationships in enhancing the exploitation of regional benefits, pooling resources and capabilities to achieve common goals. This research contributes to the understanding of how regional specialization and firm-level characteristics such as entrepreneurial orientation and cooperation with external agents drive innovation performance in a rapidly evolving and technology-driven business context.

Javier Martínez Falcó (p), Eduardo Sánchez-Garcia, Bartolomé Marco-Lajara, Luis Antonio Millán-Tudela

Harro Prins

This research focuses on analyzing the impact of Wine Tourism (WT) on the Green Performance (GP) of Spanish wineries, as well as the mediating effect of Green Knowledge Sharing (GKS) on this linkage. In addition, age, size and membership in a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) are introduced as control variables to increase the precision of the cause-effect relationships examined. The study proposes a conceptual model based on previous studies, which is tested using structural equations (PLS-SEM) with data collected from 196 Spanish wineries between September 2022 and January 2023. The findings of the research reveal the existence of a positive and significant relationship between the development of WT and the GP of Spanish wineries, as well as the partial mediation of GKS in this association. The uniqueness and significance of this study can be attributed to several crucial factors. First, it enhances the understanding and knowledge regarding the advantages associated with WT development. Second, no prior research has conducted a comprehensive study on WT as a catalyst for GP within the context of Spanish wineries. Third, to the best of the authors' knowledge, no previous study has analyzed the mediating role of GKS as mediator in the relationship between WT and GP of wineries.