The DaVinci Institute's annual forecast trend list includes two related to coworking. One is an increasing number of single person businesses. The other is a trend they call "business colonies", which sounds like coworking meets economic development meets clusters. Key quote:
"Colonies will form around shared resources. Equipment that is too expensive for one person to own will be owned by the colony for all to share. Colonies will vary in size and structure as communities begin to experiment with the essential ingredients needed to make it successful." It is at: http://www.davinciinstitute.com/page.php?ID=621 DaVinci can be a bit flakey, but their work is almost always interesting and well thought out. We did our trends list for small business, but did not mention coworking:). It is at: http://genylabs.typepad.com/small_biz_labs/2008/12/2009-top-10-small-business-trends.html Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
