Support for Youth (Start-Up) Entrepreneurship through the Development of Co-working Spaces: Accumulated Experience and Perspectives
Support for Youth (Start-Up) Entrepreneurship through the Development of Co-working Spaces: Accumulated Experience and Perspectives

Summary/Abstract: The experience of creation and development of coworking centers in the city of Moscow shows premises should be chosen with the lowest lease rate, but one should include an advertising budget and running of public events for the target audience. Given the social component of the project, it is necessary to form the "core" of residents of coworking. The "evangelists" of a new place are useful, these ones are formed in the already operating coworking center in another district of the city. It is advisable for the authorities to provide various support to co-working centers, including orders for profile activities and trainings, subsidizing of part of the costs of start-up entrepreneurs for the lease of workplaces, ensuring the exchange of best practices for successful projects. The article presents a scheme for initiating the creation of coworking centers by government bodies engaged in supporting small business development at the municipal level. The development of coworking centers is a unique direction that is advantageous for both state and municipal government bodies, as well as for owners of old industrial enterprises that require redevelopment, as well as for start-up entrepreneurs to create their own business from a "zero" level.

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