A Study On The Development Of The Makerspaces In Kunming

Under the background of "Innovation 2.0" and "Internet plus" initiative in China,information technology,especially the Internet,has made considerable progress.Meanwhile,the process of globalization is blocked,the trade protectionism and populism is rising.Since the market competition is further fierce,the global economic recovery is facing great challenges.In response to the changes in global economy and the market environment,Chinese central government will gradually regard the entrepreneurial innovation as the core of attention and continue introducing preferential policies to encourage entrepreneurial and individual innovation to stabilize economic growth.With the widespread support and participation from all walks of life,makerspace.a new born thing,is barbarically growing and blossoming everywhere in China.This paper takes makerspaces in Kunming as the research object.Based on the theory of entrepreneurial ecology.the theory of enterprise life cycle and the theory of target market positioning,this paper studies existing makerspaces in Kunming.Combined with the local development environment,this paper explores the development bottleneck and deficiencies of the makerspaces in Kunming,with referencing from the development of domestic and foreign representative makerspaces and gripping from positioning.serv ice and profit model of makerspaces,and put forward the development proposals through the literature research,field research,interviews and other methods.This research is kind of certain theoretical and practical significance to the development of the makerspaces in Kunming and other similar cities.The whole paper is divided into six chapters,including introduction in the first chapter,related concepts and literature review in the second chapter,benchmarking research at home and abroad in the third chapter,the development and present situation of makerspaces in Kunming in the fourth chapter,the empirical research on makerspaces in Kunming in the fifth chapter and conclusion and prospect in the sixth chapter.Firstly,this paper chiefly introduces the background,framework,significance and methods of the research,identifies the reasons for choosing the topic.analyses innovation and shortcomings of this study.Based on the results of previous studies,the relevant concepts are introduced in the second part,including Innovation 2.0,maker,entrepreneurial incubator,makerspace,the long tail theory,entrepreneurial ecology,theory of Enterprises life cycles and the theory of positioning.Then this research selects numerous domestic and foreign benchmarking makerspaces for combining and summarizing the processes and models of development.After that,the environment and status of development of makerspaces in Kunming unfold in front of us.The next part is about empirical research.Using field research,case comparison study and questionnaire survey method,this part empirically analyses the development mechanism and service models of makerspaces in Kunming to find out problems and bottlenecks.At the last,this paper summarizes this study,and puts forward the development direction and policy recommendations of makerspaces in Kunming.This research found that the main funders of Kunming's makerspaces are almost high-tech industrial parks,creative industrial parks,the original incubator enterprises,large state-owned enterprises and universities,etc.In recent years,the development of makerspaces in Kunming is maintaining at a rapid pace,even though various problems such as fuzzy positioning,serious homogenization,lack and lag of the mechanism of the strain,the superficial service mechanism and other issues are occurring during the process.These problems have seriously hampered the development and potential of makerspaces,which may suspend sustainable development of makerspaces,or even bring a flash in the pan.In this study,two stages of empirical studies show that these problems do exist.In the case study,we can learn that makerspaces in Kunming are still using the traditional hatching model of development.There exist some problems,such as fuzzy positioning,lack of office facilities,weakness of domestic installation,single incubation policy,lack of service characteristics,single profit point,lack of differentiation and so on.Under the investigation and research of makers in Kunming,this paper finds that the group pays much attention to the qualification of makerspaces.The services which are most concerned by makers are tangible services and basic intangible services rather than those services which may contribute growing such as planning,strategy,management,knowledge and property rights to their owned enterprises in the future.In addition,the overall satisfaction of services provided by makerspaces in Kunming stays at low level.Phenomenon mentioned above shows that the quality of service provided by makerspaces in Kunming can't not only meet the needs of makers but also realize its claimed comprehensive and quality.Among them,there are 6 services in a high degree of maker's awareness but in a very low satisfaction.With considering ubiquitous needs,makerspaces need to pay more attention and transfer more resources to improve service quality.Finally,this paper puts forward a series of suggestions to solve those problems mentioned above by meticulous analysis.