A new report, The Emerging Collaborative Economy in Australia, produced by Vision Critical in partnership with Collaborative Lab and Nine! Rewards, reveals promising uptake of and enthusiasm for collaborative economy platforms that use technology to enable people to connect to share and exchange a variety of goods and services. There is already high penetration of many… Read more
The massive crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, is to open an Irish website soon according to the Irish Independent. The site, set to bring creative projects to life through individual small scale donations, will be welcomed by a growing number of Irish entrepreneurs. So far they’ve had to go through US or UK sites. Relatively unknown in Ireland, Kickstarter will go up… Read more
Eric Ho is the founder of miLES, opening underused storefronts to new possibilities, with classes, events, co-working, and short-term space rentals. 1. We see that your background is in architecture. What draws you to collaborative consumption? It’s very much directly related to architecture. To me, there is so much creative potential for architects if they decide… Read more
Denise Cheng, a Comparative Media Studies Graduate student at MIT, recently gave an update on her research exploring how different paradigms of work move into the mainstream. She also brings to light potential worker welfare issues as we transition to an economy embracing collaborative consumption. We spoke to Denise earlier this year to shed some… Read more
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