Download: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321533340_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Take_Eat_Easy_or_Why_Markets_are_not_Easy_to_Take_in_the_Sharing_Economy Citation: P. Belleflamme and N. Neysen, The Rise and Fall of Take Eat Easy, or Why Markets are not Easy to Take in the Sharing Economy, in Digiworld Economic Journal (Communications & Strategies), no. 108 (4th Quarter, 2017), 59-76. Abstract: We examine the reasons behind the rise and fall of Take Eat Easy, […]
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The World Economic Forum (WEF), organiser of the annual Davos meeting, published a white paper on the sharing economy. The report, titled Collaboration in Cities: From Sharing to ‘Sharing Economy’ distinguishes between the myriad of oft-confused concepts and terms: collaborative consumption, the peer-to-peer economy, collaborative economy, gig economy, on-demand economy and crowd economy. It maps […]
First published on IPdigIT. On May 22, the Laboratory of Excellence for Financial Regulation (LabEx-ReFi) organized a one-day workshop on Online Alternative Finance: Building a Bridge between Research and Practitioners. The objective of the workshop was “to bring together scholars, industry leaders and regulators to have an open-minded discussion about our current state of knowledge […]
First published on IPdigIT. Dans cette série d’articles, je cherche à comprendre ce qui a fait passer la plateforme Take Eat Easy du Capitole à la roche Tarpéienne. Après avoir présenté un cadre d’analyse économique des plateformes de l’économie du partage (ou plateformes P2P) et donné la parole à son fondateur, Adrien Roose, je m’interroge […]
First published on IPdigIT. Dans ce deuxième volet de la série consacrée à la plateforme Take Eat Easy, IPdigIT donne la parole à Adrien Roose, un des co-fondateurs de la plateforme, qui fut aussi son dernier CEO. (Le premier article de la série présente quelques balises économiques pour comprendre l’économie des plateformes dites ‘P2P’; le […]
First published on IPdigIT. Quand on parle de “l’économie du partage”, on se concentre généralement sur les quelques success-stories (ou supposées comme telles) que sont Uber et Airbnb. Or, il faut savoir partager aussi les histoires de semi-réussites ou d’échecs, car il y a autant – si pas plus – à apprendre d’elles. Tel est […]
First published on IPdigIT. Dans un article récent, le journal Le Monde explique comment Ben Becker et Elliot Glass, deux Américains actifs dans le monde de la publicité, ont habilement trompé leur monde en orchestrant une campagne de lancement pour une fausse application, prétendument destinée à devenir un Uber pour crottes de chien: Pooper est […]
On May 13, 2016, the editors of IPdigIT organized a one-day conference to study the growing importance of ‘Big data in the platform economy‘. To this end, they assembled a panel of experts from several disciplines: applied mathematics, engineering, economics, management, policy-making, and law. (You can find the general description of the conference here). The […]
First published on IPdigIT. Over the past six years, Uber has become a synonym for on-demand transportation services. The San-Francisco based start-up pioneered the industry and continues to hold the pole position in the American market. According to a recent article on Bloomberg, Uber currently seeks to raise $2.1 billion in a financing round that […]
First published on IPdigIT. Comparison shopping sites, also known as shopping robots or shopbots, have been around for about two decades. Sites such as Shopping.com, Shopper.com, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, Vergelijk or Kelkoo help us find goods or services that are sold online by providing us with loads of information (products sold, price charged, quality, delivery and […]