Abstract

Digital Technologies are contributing to reshaping our economies and are transforming many aspects of our personal and professional lives. The sharing economy is a key emerging trend creating, developing and delivering innovative business models, services and solutions enabled by technologies, where physical and digital boundaries are blurred and consumers are transformed into prosumers. We can say that in virtually any sector of the sharing economy, services are made possible by digital platforms and ecosystems, designed with the aim to facilitate the matchmaking between demand and supply. Finally, in the near future, we may also see technology sustaining the development of appropriate policies and as the main tool to ensure effective enforcement systems.