sharing economy
Sign in to saveAlso known as collaborative economy, shareconomy, collaborative commons, collaborative consumption
economic and social systems that enable shared access to goods, services, data and talent
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- Instance of
- economic system
- Subclass of
- economic activity
- Part of
- circular economy
- Has parts of class
- product-service system
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Encyclopedic overview
The sharing economy is a socio-economic system whereby consumers share in the creation, production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods, and services. These systems take a variety of forms, often leveraging information technology and the Internet, particularly digital platforms, to facilitate the distribution, sharing and reuse of excess capacity in goods and services.
It can be facilitated by nonprofit organizations, usually based on the concept of book-lending libraries, in which goods and services are provided for free (or sometimes for a modest subscription) or by commercial entities, in which a company provides a service to customers for profit.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sharing economy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.