do you know about
uber and airbnb?

there are many other platforms, like uber and airbnb, that connect supply and demand in just a glimpse of a touch

You can rent a suit from an original dandy for one night party.

demand

supply

all these services today are part of the sharing economy

interact with the pictures You can fund your ideas without a bank loan. You can buy a secondhand excercise bike for your physiotherapy. You can earn extra money helping people to move.

An economic model, where commonly available technologies enable people to get what they need from each other.

This market model is enabled by three forces that are converging now:

technological, economical and societal drivers

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The benefits of the Sharing Economy are lower costs, less waste and the creation of global communities with neighborly values. But all this can only be realized if the sharing platforms are safe. Here because the ingredients to make these services work are

reputation
and trust

As a new model, the Sharing Economy issue is discussing by several experts and by media. Through the digital methods, we mapped the emerging debate in the magma of the web.

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The graph shows the evolution in time of main words and topic emerged from Google Scholar papers, Lexis Nexis news and Google Search results concerning Sharing Economy.

Watching at graphs on the top, we can see that after 2013 the vocabulary change a lot and fast and in 2014 emerged a new word:

uber

Especially in the world of the news, in 2015 the San Francisco company has catalyzed the attention and influenced the rest of the world.

why is uber
catching the
attention?

Uber, which launched its service in 2009, had already raised more than $6 billion from 49 investors, almost like 262 smaller sharing companies.

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The economic growth of Uber had a disruptive impact on the existing institutions and on the society. Recently, Uber has been the subject of ongoing protests and legal action from

taxi drivers and governments around the world. The pictures below bacame the symbols of these protests because of their spread in the web and they influenced the perception of Uber.

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But Uber is only the trailblazer of the Sharing Economy and its issues regard the acceptance of whole this model, that is creating new opportunities both for consumers and businesses and

it shouldn’t be prevented

Some institutions, like the European Commission, are seeking to quell conflicts against the Sharing companies, such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Airbnb Inc., with the aim of boosting growth of this economy in the 28 nation bloc.

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The Sharing Economy is

a growing
worldwide
phenomenon

From its born to 2008, the Sharing Economy had a constant increasing. After that year the companies had a boost, reaching a maximum peak in 2014 with 253 companies.

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So Uber and Airbnb are not the only Sharing companies, there is an entire world of startups that involves all the industry sectors and meets all your needs.

the innovation
of this economy
is that you can
be both user
and supplier

Discover the hundreds of sharing companies and find out the service that fits your specific needs. If don’t find it, you probably have discovered the next successful idea to be crowdfunded!

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