Sharing economy is an interesting model for business as usual to develop new products and services for a community of users.

But what does it mean to adopt a sharing economy model?

On June 7th, an event during the 13th edition of the International Exhibition on Industrial Research and Skills for Innovation was organised to show the opportunities and limits of the sharing economy model.

The panel was introduced and moderated by Kristian Mancinone, Social Innovation expert in ASTER.

Marta Mainieri, one of the creator of Sharitaly and the founder of Collaboriamo.org showed some results from the annual research on digital collaborative platforms.

Sharitaly is the first italian event dedicated to sharing economy and digital platforms, and each year gives advices and insights on the sharing economy as a digital model for business development.

Then, Lucía Dobarro Delgado, Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias (ITC) presented the aim and the first results of the SHAREEN project, and an opportunity to join the sharing community during an event in Tenerife: http://www.tenerifecolaborativa.com/

Eliana Capodicasa, General Manager - Up2Go presented a B2B platform for car pooling (presentation)

Andrea Cavagna, CSO & Co-Founder - Sfridoo showed the opportunity of circular economy linked to sharing model through a second hand market of raw materials (presentation)

Paolo Piras, Responsible - Progetto Liberex talked about the potential of cumplimentary currency for SMEs (presentation)

The event was the first regional opportunity to gather actors and people interested in exploring sharing economy.