• collaborative economy
• platform
• sharing economy
• uber

The Sharing Economy is a new economic phenomenon that has created markets out of things that would not have been considered as valuable assets in the past. The purpose of this paper is to provide a general framework of this new business model. In the first chapter a wide description of the phenomenon is given, with particular reference to the sectors and platforms involved. In the second chapter the general peer-to-peer business model,the role of participants and sharing economy revenue models are analyzed. In the last chapter we provide a study of Uber’case, the most popular ridesharing platform.