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Elisa Mattarelli: Hello, my name is Elisa Mattarelli and I am an associate professor at the School of Management in the College of Business. I am the co-editor of the book

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Elisa Mattarelli: Collaborative Spaces at Work:  Innovation, Creativity and Relations, together with my colleagues Fabrizio Montanari and Anna Chiara Scapolan from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, in Italy.

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Elisa Mattarelli: A few  years ago there was a strong interest, I would say even an obsession, for designing new spaces for collaboration. Companies, but also public organizations

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Elisa Mattarelli: were - and are still - interested in creating physical spaces where people could meet formally or informally, have interactions, and generate potentially new and breakthrough ideas.

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Elisa Mattarelli: And the hope was that, through face to face interactions individuals could interact more with others and overall come up with more and better ideas, and more innovation.

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Elisa Mattarelli: Collaborative spaces take very different forms. There are collaborative spaces inside of private companies.

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Elisa Mattarelli: That are there are also a lot of collaborative spaces that are in public contexts, such as innovation labs, social innovation hubs,

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Elisa Mattarelli: Fab labs, incubators, accelerators, cultural innovation centers. All these are spaces are intended to foster the encounter between people with very different backgrounds. In this book, you will find different chapters

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Elisa Mattarelli: That present research on the different types of collaborative spaces. This research shows that these spaces face multiple challenges and 

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Elisa Mattarelli: that multiple factors need to be taken into account to really foster interactions and get to the innovation and creativity promise.

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Elisa Mattarelli: This topic is particularly relevant today as companies and public organizations are rethinking about the role of physical space

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Elisa Mattarelli: for regular work and also for knowledge intensive work. I hope that reading these book chapters and these cases will stimulate some interest about the role of the physical space and will give you suggestions on how to design better spaces for collaboration and innovation.

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Elisa Mattarelli: Thank you.