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The Emerging Platform Economy
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Understanding the Global Platform Economy
April 6, 2015
Platforms have proven to be highly successful business models, as demonstrated by Apple, Google, Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Alibaba, FlipKart, Jumia among others. Yet many questions remain: How many platform companies are there in the world? What is the market cap of public platforms? How much money have private platforms raised? CGE is exploring […]
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World's Leading Universities for Platform Scholarship
March 18, 2015
Where does the most important scholarship reside on platform companies, network effects, and double-sided markets? Analysis suggests that 12 academic institutions stand out. The first is Toulouse School of Economics due to the seminal work done by Jean Tirole and Jullien Bruno. Tirole won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2014. This is followed by Imperial […]
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VC Funding for Ride Sourcing
January 13, 2015
New technologies can unleash new platform opportunities and new forms of value creation, value sharing, and value capture. This chart highlights the stark difference between the PC era (when Zipcar was the only real player) and today, where more than $4 billion in VC funding has flowed into transportation platform startups. This illustrates the power of mobile […]
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