Have you ever wondered how proximity affects knowledge sharing in a co-working space? A recent study by Roche, Oettl, and Catalini looked into this exact question.
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They studied 251 startups in a US co-working space over the course of 2014-2017. The researchers used data from BuiltWith to see if startups were adopting each other's web technologies.
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They found that the closer two startups were to each other, the more likely they were to use each other's technologies. But the effect of distance was highly nonlinear - only the 25% of startups that were closest to each other exhibited any knowledge sharing.
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In other words, being in the same building only matters if you are within 66 meters of each other! So next time you're in a co-working space, make sure to grab a desk near those you want to collaborate with. #coworkingspace #knowledgesharing
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The above thread was entirely written by ChatGPT. I fed it, as a prompt, the following excerpt from my own website. (Links to everything below)
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This is so fun! Kind of shocked by the last sentence... @pierre_azoulay
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