Category:Collaborative Economy

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Peer to peer dynamics drive self-aggregation around common value creation, which can either be driven from the bottom-up, or harnessed by existing corporations and institutions. In this new section, we look at the various forms this 'collaborative economy' is taking.

  • Video: * Four Future P2P Scenarios, this closing keynote presents two for-profit oriented scenarios for the future of the collaborative economy, and two commons oriented ones.


Introductory Material

Typology

According to the Collaborative Economy Coalition, there are "Different Types of Collaborative Platforms":


Peer-to-Peer

P2P business models allow everyday citizens to rent, sell and share their homes, cars, bikes and services. These platforms allow families to create income out of otherwise non-producing assets, while giving consumers an alternative to services that are otherwise prohibitively expensive for them. Some P2P platforms allow consumers to directly buy professional creative and logistical services, while others empower citizens to give loans and startup capital to aspiring small businesspeople across America and the developing world.


Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing platforms create a pure competitive marketplace for creative talent and services. These platforms allow consumers to easily announce their creative or logistical needs to the crowd, and then choose the highest quality and most competitively priced submission.


Collaborative online markets

Online marketplaces provide individuals access to globalization. Some online markets like Etsy provide a platform for consumers to buy directly from small businesses and artisans, allowing those small businesses to scale up their production and compete with mega-retailers. Other platforms allow consumers to sell, rent, and buy pre-owned goods, thus creating cashflow for families and a market for affordable items.


Group Purchasing Platforms

Some collaborative models use technology to allow consumers to leverage group bargaining and increase their purchasing power by connecting consumers with similar interests. These models aim to create perfect equilibrium of supply and demand, allowing small businesses to scale their businesses rapidly while also providing consumers the most competitive prices possible." (http://www.collaborativeeconomycoalition.org/what-is-the-collaborative-economy/)


Short Citations

  • You'd think that crowds would have models for business, rather than business having models for crowds.

- Bruce Sterling (tweet)


Long Citations

Chris Carlson:

"Corporations ARE the problem as the common institutional form of late capitalism, the social system that is the real root of poverty and inequality. Corporations are (temporarily) immortal, often unaccountable to national laws, brazenly criminal, murderous, and have only one purpose: to accumulate capital. They are not, and cannot be, moral actors in society. Even if the most pious, ascetic monks were put in charge of large corporations, the fiduciary responsibility of corporate leaders is to ensure the growth of profits and wealth for the stockholders or private owners. Corporations are not formed to do anything useful or beneficial to humans (except as an accidental byproduct), nor other species, nor the planet as a whole, unless (and only if) the activity produces profits. Corporate leaders can be personally very greedy or completely indifferent to personal wealth. It does not matter. If they don’t show steadily increasing “growth” (accumulating capital) they will be replaced by the next interchangeable “captain of industry.” (http://www.nowtopians.com/work-and-the-economy/%E2%80%9Ccorporate-greed%E2%80%9D-is-not-the-problem)

General overview table

Co-Creative‎ Collaborative Distributed Participatory Socially-driven Amateur Citizen Community Crowd Peer User
Co-Production

Co-Design


Co-Creation


Co-Creating Health Services


Non-Market Co-Creation


Co-Governance


Co-Working

Collaboration

Mass Collaboration


Large-scale Internet Collaboration


Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology


Collaboration Theory


Collaboration Pyramid


Collaborative Intelligence


Synergystic Cooperation


Contingent Cooperation


Co-Creation


Co-Design


Collaborative Innovation Networks


Collaborative Innovation at Michelin


Cooperative Innovation at Aventis


Collaborative Investment Research


Cooperative Economics


Cooperative Capitalism


Cooperative Capital


Collaboration Marketing


Collaborative Authorship


Collaborative Content Distribution


Asynchronous Collaborative Music Recording


Collaborative Citizen Journalism


Collaborative Photojournalism


Collaborative Defense

Distributed

Distributive Production


Distributed Intellectual Product Right


Distributed Constructionism


What is a Distributed Network


Distributed Social Networking


Distributed Systems Online


Distributed Computation

Participative Business Models

Participatory Management


Participatory Management - Semco


Richard Semler on Participatory Management


Participatory Culture


Participative Epistemology


Participatory Journalism


Participative Public Services


Participatory Spirituality


Participatory Urban Planning


Participatory Video

Social Capital

Socially Responsible Trading Networks


Social Commerce


Social Economy


Social Economy - Europe

Amateur Class

Amateur Collectives


Mass Amateurization


Professional Amateurs

Civic Agriculture

Citizen Journalism


Collaborative Citizen Journalism


Citizen Science


Citizen Engineers


Citizen Marketers


Civic Capitalism


Civil Corporation


Civil Economy


Civic Intelligence


Citizen Ownership


Citizen Stake

Community Supported Manufacturing

Community Supported Agriculture


Agriculture Supported Communities


Community Supported Bakeries


Community Currencies


Community Wireless


Community Water-Management Systems


Knowledge Building Community


Community-Driven Investigations


Self-Generating Practitioner Community


Community-Based Tools in Science

Crowd

Crowdsourcing


Crowd Accelerated Innovation


Crowdfunding


Crowd Curation


Crowd Clout


Crowd Science


Energy Crowd


Curated Crowds‎


Crowdsourcing Business Models


Crowd‎


Crowdcreation‎


Crowd Contests


Microtasks


Macrotasks

Peer Production

Commons-Based Peer Production


Peer to Peer Lending


Peer to Peer Credit Architecture


Peer to Peer Energy Trading


Peer-to-Peer Product-Service Systems


Peer to Peer Risk Allocation


Peer to Peer Camping


P2P Energy Grid


Peer to Peer Exchanges


P2P Filesharing


Peer to Peer Petsitting

User-Centered Innovation

User Innovation Theory


Understanding User-Driven Innovation


User-Generated Ecosystem


User-Generated Content


User-Filtered Content


User-Driven Advertizing


User-Created Advertizing


User-Capitalized Networks

Overview Pages

  1. Amateur-Driven Value Creation
  2. Citizen-Driven_Value_Creation
  3. Community-Driven_Value_Creation
  4. Crowd-Driven_Value_Creation
  5. Peer-Driven Value Creation
  6. User-Driven_Value_Creation

And also:

  1. Co-Creative Value Creation‎‎
  2. Collaborative Value Creation
  3. Distributed Value Creation
  4. Participatory Value Creation
  5. Socially-Driven Value Creation


Important Definitions

Via [3]:

  • Innovation Networks = “Firms seamlessly weave internally and externally available invention and innovation services to optimize the profitability of their products, services, and business models.” [4]
  • Crowdsourcing = sourcing small and large jobs from anyone and everyone.
  • Expert Sourcing = sourcing from specialized, professional-grade, vetted experts.
  • Wisdom of Crowds = the wisdom of the crowd’s collective intelligence outweighs any individuals.)


Related Wiki sections


Citations

"The 20th century was preoccupied with organizing the mass production system ... in the century to come ... how more people can collaborate more effectively on creating new ideas."

- Charles Leadbeater, in: We Think


-"In the economy of things yo uare identified by what you own. In the economy of ideas you are what you share."

- Charles Leadbeater, in: We Think


Long Citations

Scaling Up From One

Scale up from one: Regular people and small manufacturing companies that lack investment capital will be able to set up low investment, “start small and scale up as it goes” businesses. Thanks to the low-cost Internet virtual storefronts, and the low cost of small-scale manufacturing for prototypes and custom goods, new companies can get started on a shoestring budget, yet sell their wares or services to niche, global marketplaces.

- Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman [5]


How Social Enables Shared Alignment in the Purpose-Driven Business

"When you have shared purpose, it doesn’t matter how many people work “in the company” and how many work “with” the company or how many are serving as an army of volunteers who want to advance the mission. What will it look like to lead an organization when only 5% of talent affecting output is directly on payroll, and others come and go? Organizations will not need to be big to have a big impact. But they will need an extremely clear purpose, and shared, decentralized power throughout. When a clear purpose is coupled with shared power, people can self-organize to reach the goal.

In essence, organizations will finally act flat because they will actually be flat. (And, of course, this affects management’s role and how we all manage our careers. More on that in future posts.)

Work is freed. This changes not only how we work at the broadest levels — and how we organize every single part of our organizations — but what we make, how we produce and distribute it, and how we market and sell it. Is that scary? For many, yes. But, for better or worse, social is giving us this freedom."

- Nilover Merchant [6]

Examples

Interesting innovations:


Rachel Botsman, author of the book, What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, expects the consumer peer-to-peer rental market to become a $26 billion industry." (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/arabic/article.cfm?articleid=2714)


Statistics

"Uniiverse has collated some startling figures detailing the opportunity space of ‘idlesourcing’:

  • There are one billion cars on the road, 740 million of them carrying only one person, and 470m would be willing to carpool.
  • There are 460 million homes in the developed world, with on average $3,000 worth of unused items available; and 69% of households would share these items if they could earn some money from it
  • 300 million people in the developed world spend more than 20% of their waking hours alone and are looking for connection
  • of the 2 billion internet-connected people in the world, 78% declare that their online experience has made them more amenable to sharing in the ‘real world’ (this conversion from online to offline sharing behaviour is confirmed by the Latitude Research survey). 80% of the 7 billion people on the planet today would declare that sharing makes them more happy. This means 5.7b people would be ready for a sharing economy."

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ig31ELGDJ0Q)

See also the video: The Social Basis for a Sharing Economy


Sharing Directory

  1. accessories & gifts http://meshing.it/categories/1-accessories-gifts
  2. books & writing , http://meshing.it/categories/2-books-writing
  3. business & innovation , http://meshing.it/categories/3-business-innovation (Book Commons
  4. careers, jobs & vocation , http://meshing.it/categories/4-careers-jobs-vocations
  5. creativity, media & the arts , http://meshing.it/categories/7-creativity-media-the-arts
  6. diy , http://meshing.it/categories/8-diy
  7. education , http://meshing.it/categories/9-education
  8. energy , http://meshing.it/categories/10-energy Sharing Energy
  9. entertainment , http://meshing.it/categories/23-entertainment
  10. farming & gardening , http://meshing.it/categories/14-farming-gardening
  11. fashion & clothing , http://meshing.it/categories/11-fashion-clothing
  12. finance & economics , http://meshing.it/categories/12-finance-economics
  13. food & drink , http://meshing.it/categories/13-food-drink
  14. government , http://meshing.it/categories/6-government
  15. health & fitness , http://meshing.it/categories/15-health-fitness
  16. home improvement , http://meshing.it/categories/18-home-improvement
  17. kids' stuff , http://meshing.it/categories/20-kids-stuff
  18. marketing services , http://meshing.it/categories/21-marketing-services
  19. mobility , http://meshing.it/categories/28-mobility
  20. natural resources & environment , http://meshing.it/categories/24-natural-resources-environment
  21. real estate , http://meshing.it/categories/25-real-estate
  22. seasonal & holidays , http://meshing.it/categories/26-seasonal-holidays
  23. technology & data , http://meshing.it/categories/27-technology-data
  24. travel , http://meshing.it/categories/29-travel
  25. upcycling & recycling , http://meshing.it/categories/30-upcycling-recycling

Key Resources

  1. News about the Sharing Economy via Twitter
  2. Innovation in Collaborative Consumption, monitor innovative initiatives here
  3. The Collaborative Economy Coalition promotes the continued success of collaborative business models by advocating for policy that defends and advances sustainable local enterprise and micro-entrepreneurism.

[7]

  1. Shareable magazine


Key Articles

  • How Personal Fabrication Will Change Manufacturing and the Economy. Hod Lipson & Melba Kurman, in Factory@Home, pp. 51+. It contributes to: Ecosystems of small manufacturers; Long tail niche markets; Economic emergence of underserved communities; Consumer-led product design; Scale up from one; Mass customization and crowdsourcing; Eco-conscious and subsistence-level manufacturing; Less market research, more toolkits


How-to:

Policy

  • * Report: The Rise of the Micro-Multinational: How Freelancers and Technology-Savvy Start-Ups Are Driving Growth, Jobs and Innovation. By Ann Mettler and Anthony D. Williams. Lisbon Council Policy Brief, 2013. [12]: contains 8 policy proposals.


The interplay between open source and capitalism

Key Books


Key Case Studies

  • See the case study on the Glif iphone tripod for an example of integrated distributed funding, design, manufacturing, marketing, and fullfilment.


Key Movements

Local

  1. Consumo Colaborativo‎, Spain
  2. KoKonsum, Germany
  3. People Who Share‎, UK
  4. Unstash, Toronto, Canada

USA

  1. Collaborative Chats‎, San Francisco, USA
  2. Let’s Collaborate‎, NYC
  3. Share Exchange‎, Santa Rosa, USA
  4. Share Tompkins‎, Ithaca, NY
  5. Shared Squared, NYC
  6. Sharers of San Francisco‎


Key Statistics

"According to MIT Sloan Expert Jaime Contreras, the collaborative economy is far more than just a rapidly growing, nouveau approach to business; it could actually turn out to be a billion-dollar cash cow. A 110-billion-dollar cash cow, to be exact.

From MITS:\ “Today the sharing economy — the peer-to-peer exchange of goods and services — is being called next big trend in social commerce, and represents what some analysts say is a potential $110 billion market. Internet technology and access to information allow us to share our belongings with others more easily than ever before and wring value out of stuff we already own. That, coupled with many people’s desire to lead greener, less consumptive lives, is driving this trend.” (http://www.business2community.com/trends-news/know-collaborative-economy-110b-market-0745600)

Key Videos

Visualisations

  • Solidarity Economy concept map:

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