Research on the platform economy

Which opportunities do cooperative models and blockchain technology offer to the platform economy? What are other potential pathways toward a more sustainable platform economy? 

Today, new digital platforms for sharing, swapping and other ways of collaborative consumption are widely associated with positive economic, ecological and social effects. At the same time, existing platforms like Airbnb and Uber are increasingly criticized in public debate for having negative effects on people, local economies and our planet. As a counter model, new decentral models combining alternative organizational forms (such as platform cooperatives) and new technologies (such as Blockchain technology) are discussed and tested. These and other alternative models promise to better reach social-ecological goals and offer potential to transform the sharing and platform economy. 

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On May 8th SUPERMARKT Berlin and BeShared will jointly host a workshop introducing and discussion commons-oriented business models.The workshop will address topics such as collaborative business models, building supportive infrastructures and funding models.
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Organizational Forms and the field of the Platform Economy

Platform Coop Learning Journey: Invitation to joint event
The teams of SMart Belgium, platforms2share, and SUPERMARKT are partnering up to provide a unique learning journey for platform coops with support from the Enterprise Europe Network and the two EU-funded projects BeShared and EU-GIVE.
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E-Floaters, the new mobility trend from California, are used and offered as sharing concepts in more and more cities worldwide, while in Germany their legalization is still a matter of controversy.
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The thirteenth edition of the conference for the digital society will take place in Berlin, this time led by the motto tl;dr which is Internet slang and stands for “too long; didn’t read”.
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Event: Commons-oriented business models - How to think of innovations holistically
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