What I see and what I think is really happening is a collaborative economy.
Europe's next unicorn [a startup company valued at $1bn plus] could stem from the collaborative economy".
He said: "It's clear that the collaborative economy cannot be a way to abuse labour.
She's also an Advisor to OuiShare (ouishare.net), a global community dedicated to accelerating the shift towards a collaborative economy.
"The main debate today in the collaborative economy is about the value and power redistribution in the sector.
All this leads collaborative economy expert Rachel Botsman to ask: why is it consumers who take on all the risk?
When we say "collaborative economy", I want to take away these expectations and expand it, because all that's optional.
"I am talking about a platform that really complies with the principles of a fair, non-extractive and collaborative economy," Veracruz says.
Today is the final day of OuiShare Fest 2014, a three-day conference in Paris bringing together over 1,000 collaborative economy entrepreneurs to examine every aspect of the sharing economy, from the Open Source Beehives Project to challenges for corporations in the collaborative economy.
The result is known variously as "collaborative consumption", the "asset-light lifestyle", the "collaborative economy", "peer economy", "access economy" or "sharing economy".Technology Quarterly Picture imperfect Coach potatoes Fool's platinum?
HullCoin, they say, could one day become the 'blood supply' of a growing collaborative economy, which extends from locally grown food projects to collective purchasing and savings networks, providing an economic safety net for hard times and new opportunities for good.
