Amalya L. Oliver is Full Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.Jörg Sydow is a Full Professor of Management and Chair for Inter-firm Cooperation at the School of Business & Economics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.Patrick Cohendet is Full Professor at HEC Montréal, Canada, in the International Business Department.

• Chapter 1. Spaces for creativity and innovation within and across organizational boundaries: Introduction; Jörg Sydow, Amalya L. Oliver, and Patrick Cohendet OPEN ACCESSCharacterization of SpacesChapter 2. ‘In-between spaces’ for collaborative innovation: Elucidating interrelated relational spaces; Susanne Ollila and Anna YströmChapter 3. The collaborative middleground: How employees and managers co-create novel ideas; Nadine Scholz, Marcela Miozzo, and Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter OChapter 4. Emergence and organization of a creative place in the middleground: Acceleration, collateral effect and critical mass; Thomas Blonski, Thomas Paris, and Pierre PoinsignonChapter 5. Effect of proximity relationships on creativity and innovation in an interorganizational complex project; Thierry HouéChapter 6. How innovation consultants perform ‘liminality work’ in helping others to be creative; Maura Soekijad, Natalja Laurey, Hans Berends, and Marleen HuysmanNonstandard SpacesChapter 7. Failure as a process: Shaping what is worth doing in creative projects; Birke D. Otto, Benjamin Schiemer, Harry Sminia, and Jörg SydowChapter 8. The power of heterotopias: Inter-organizational cooperation as an experimental space; Martina Ukowitz and Markus MesserschmidtChapter 9. Idea work beyond organizational boundaries: Framing and reframing projects on a crowdfunding platform; Genjiro Kosaka, Yuki Tsuboyama, and Takahiro EndoChapter 10. Switching between different spaces of stimulation and focus: Steering idea work in hybrid work settings; Anne Kurzmann, Christian Hoßbach, and Anne-Katrin NeyerSpecific LocalitiesChapter 11. Place-based affordances: Theorizing the role of places in organizing creativity; Etienne Capron and Elie SaaoudChapter 12. Possibilities for technological entrepreneurship in peripheral space: An institutional perspective; Efrat Asulin, Amalya L. Oliver, and Shai HarelChapter 13. How does a public policy fail? Creative city policy and the tensional space of artist-led organizations; Rebecca Prescott, Ziyun Fan, Ziad Elsahn, and Tom Mordue

Amalya L. Oliver is Full Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.Jörg Sydow is a Full Professor of Management and Chair for Inter-firm Cooperation at the School of Business & Economics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.Patrick Cohendet is Full Professor at HEC Montréal, Canada, in the International Business Department.

• Chapter 1. Spaces for creativity and innovation within and across organizational boundaries: Introduction; Jörg Sydow, Amalya L. Oliver, and Patrick Cohendet OPEN ACCESSCharacterization of SpacesChapter 2. ‘In-between spaces’ for collaborative innovation: Elucidating interrelated relational spaces; Susanne Ollila and Anna YströmChapter 3. The collaborative middleground: How employees and managers co-create novel ideas; Nadine Scholz, Marcela Miozzo, and Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter OChapter 4. Emergence and organization of a creative place in the middleground: Acceleration, collateral effect and critical mass; Thomas Blonski, Thomas Paris, and Pierre PoinsignonChapter 5. Effect of proximity relationships on creativity and innovation in an interorganizational complex project; Thierry HouéChapter 6. How innovation consultants perform ‘liminality work’ in helping others to be creative; Maura Soekijad, Natalja Laurey, Hans Berends, and Marleen HuysmanNonstandard SpacesChapter 7. Failure as a process: Shaping what is worth doing in creative projects; Birke D. Otto, Benjamin Schiemer, Harry Sminia, and Jörg SydowChapter 8. The power of heterotopias: Inter-organizational cooperation as an experimental space; Martina Ukowitz and Markus MesserschmidtChapter 9. Idea work beyond organizational boundaries: Framing and reframing projects on a crowdfunding platform; Genjiro Kosaka, Yuki Tsuboyama, and Takahiro EndoChapter 10. Switching between different spaces of stimulation and focus: Steering idea work in hybrid work settings; Anne Kurzmann, Christian Hoßbach, and Anne-Katrin NeyerSpecific LocalitiesChapter 11. Place-based affordances: Theorizing the role of places in organizing creativity; Etienne Capron and Elie SaaoudChapter 12. Possibilities for technological entrepreneurship in peripheral space: An institutional perspective; Efrat Asulin, Amalya L. Oliver, and Shai HarelChapter 13. How does a public policy fail? Creative city policy and the tensional space of artist-led organizations; Rebecca Prescott, Ziyun Fan, Ziad Elsahn, and Tom Mordue

Amalya L. Oliver is Full Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.Jörg Sydow is a Full Professor of Management and Chair for Inter-firm Cooperation at the School of Business & Economics at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.Patrick Cohendet is Full Professor at HEC Montréal, Canada, in the International Business Department.

• Chapter 1. Spaces for creativity and innovation within and across organizational boundaries: Introduction; Jörg Sydow, Amalya L. Oliver, and Patrick Cohendet OPEN ACCESSCharacterization of SpacesChapter 2. ‘In-between spaces’ for collaborative innovation: Elucidating interrelated relational spaces; Susanne Ollila and Anna YströmChapter 3. The collaborative middleground: How employees and managers co-create novel ideas; Nadine Scholz, Marcela Miozzo, and Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter OChapter 4. Emergence and organization of a creative place in the middleground: Acceleration, collateral effect and critical mass; Thomas Blonski, Thomas Paris, and Pierre PoinsignonChapter 5. Effect of proximity relationships on creativity and innovation in an interorganizational complex project; Thierry HouéChapter 6. How innovation consultants perform ‘liminality work’ in helping others to be creative; Maura Soekijad, Natalja Laurey, Hans Berends, and Marleen HuysmanNonstandard SpacesChapter 7. Failure as a process: Shaping what is worth doing in creative projects; Birke D. Otto, Benjamin Schiemer, Harry Sminia, and Jörg SydowChapter 8. The power of heterotopias: Inter-organizational cooperation as an experimental space; Martina Ukowitz and Markus MesserschmidtChapter 9. Idea work beyond organizational boundaries: Framing and reframing projects on a crowdfunding platform; Genjiro Kosaka, Yuki Tsuboyama, and Takahiro EndoChapter 10. Switching between different spaces of stimulation and focus: Steering idea work in hybrid work settings; Anne Kurzmann, Christian Hoßbach, and Anne-Katrin NeyerSpecific LocalitiesChapter 11. Place-based affordances: Theorizing the role of places in organizing creativity; Etienne Capron and Elie SaaoudChapter 12. Possibilities for technological entrepreneurship in peripheral space: An institutional perspective; Efrat Asulin, Amalya L. Oliver, and Shai HarelChapter 13. How does a public policy fail? Creative city policy and the tensional space of artist-led organizations; Rebecca Prescott, Ziyun Fan, Ziad Elsahn, and Tom Mordue