Collaborative practices under normative paradoxes at open innovation hubs

Collaborative spaces, such as innovation hubs, spark in big cities and metropolitan areas worldwide with no consensus or reflection, despite criticism and paradoxical tensions emerging from the heterogeneous community that orbits such spaces. Entrepreneurs, investors, executives, and academic researchers from diverse disciplines bring their own experiences and expectations enacting a constellation of open innovation practices with a dynamic full of nuances and influences. In this article, we analyze how members of an open innovation hub interpret the paradoxes that emerge when facing normative dimensions in place. Our preliminary results suggest that the effects of paradoxes reinforce current practices, but eventually, actors based on them transform or develop new practices. The very typical normative dimensions for open innovation spaces, such as reciprocity and openness, combined with an immersive experience of members may contribute to practices being continually reshaped.