Paper short abstract:

The Evolution of collaborative innovation spaces in Santiago de Chile in last years allows new modes of production, limited to reduced communities with technoutopian views. This has been enforced through public policy, media discourse and unequal urban distribution.

Paper long abstract:

The emergence of collaborative spaces in the last decade, as co-works, co-crafts and mixed spaces is a global phenomenon which has different local manifestations. Santiago de Chile was launched since 2010, through national innovation public policy, as innovation pole to the region, at least in media discourse. The creation of programs like Start-up Chile and specially the emergence of colaborative spaces satisfies actors and communities to create an innovation ecosystem. The openness, risks and effects about these discourses and places has been weakly explored. In this work, we characterized this collaborative spaces through a taxonomy and observed their locations inside the city. The Mapping of colaborative spaces shows inequalties among urban socioeconomical distribution. Also, we explore the public discourse and recent history of configuration about collaborative innovation spaces and their habitants as new class of citizens, in the last 5 years. In our view this phenomena in Chile vitiated a view about technology, innovation and entrepreneurship with a technoutopian message, that is focused in this spaces as nodes. Finally, the challenges to reach a broad public with this new modes of production and working are limited to access to this community in chilean capital.