Not a direct tech topic, but relevant and interesting reading since there was so much debate about fostering tech start ups: http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/05/what-an-entrepreneurial-ecosystem-actually-is/ Quotes: 'There is no evidence that increasing the number of startups *per se* or new businesses formation stimulates economic development. There is some evidence that it goes the other way around, that is, economic growth stimulates new business creation and startups.' 'There is no systematic evidence that co-working spaces contribute significantly to growing ventures. There are many anecdotes of high-growth ventures in all segments which got their starts in incubators, but there are also many more examples, less visible perhaps, of very success ventures that made no use of co-working space.' HT Conrad. Have a lovely weekend, Andrea