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Over the past decade, coworking spaces have spread and multiplied all over the world. In this paper, our objective is to highlight their ability to support entrepreneurial projects through complementing traditional support systems. We have carried out a review of the literature to identify their potential in terms of entrepreneurial support and we have chosen two different coworking spaces to empirically explore such potential. This analysis corroborated the idea that coworking spaces can facilitate and contribute to the success of entrepreneurial projects. This research, which focuses on different stages, indicates that support is complementary to traditional support systems and that certain types of coworking spaces may be more effective than others in supporting entrepreneurs.