The paper maps a range of policy initiatives for the support of collaborative workspaces (hereafter CWS) by examining the different ways such spaces have been funded, through what instruments, as well as what are the dominant reasons for receiving public support of any kind in urban and rural areas. Our analysis explores policy intentions as well as the funding tools of specific policy programmes that have supported CWS. This contribution aims to provide a categorization of existing policy initiatives about CWS and wishes to connect such policies with wider creative and urban and regional policy debates regarding the turn towards entrepreneurial forms of work and development in an era of economic uncertainty. The paper traces the evolution of CWS by examining the three overlapping waves of CWS and the specific reasons for their emergence. Then, it turns its focus on existing funding schemes and instruments for CWS, identifying five distinct categories of public support. It concludes by testifying in favour of understanding – and thus, supporting – CWS as place-based and site-specific phenomena. Thus, it calls for a new positioning of CWS into place-based development agendas, whilst taking into consideration the singularity of the place, the multiplicity of the actors and the particular institutional conditions and socio-economic characteristics involved.

该文件通过研究为协作工作空间（以下简称 CWS）提供资金的不同方式、通过哪些工具以及在城市中获得任何形式的公众支持的主要原因是什么，描绘了一系列支持协作工作空间（以下简称 CWS）的政策举措和农村地区。我们的分析探讨了支持 CWS 的具体政策项目的政策意图和资助工具。本文旨在对有关 CWS 的现有政策举措进行分类，并希望将此类政策与更广泛的创意、城市和区域政策辩论联系起来，这些辩论涉及在经济不确定的时代转向创业形式的工作和发展。本文通过考察 CWS 的三个重叠浪潮及其出现的具体原因，追溯了 CWS 的演变过程。然后，它将重点转向 CWS 的现有资助计划和工具，确定了五种不同的公共支持类别。它最后作证支持理解 - 并因此支持 - CWS 作为基于地点和特定地点的现象。因此，它要求将 CWS 重新定位到基于地方的发展议程中，同时考虑到地方的独特性、参与者的多样性以及所涉及的特定制度条件和社会经济特征。