The term "Creative City" emerged in the 90s of the 20th century reflecting the trend of transforming post-industrial cities into new creative urban centres - bases for knowledge intensive firms, highly-skilled workers and major cultural assets. The concept of culture-based urban regeneration describes a scheme where culture is purposely employed as a vehicle for an overall urban and social revitalization. The paper addresses innovative processes within culture-based urban regeneration projects in three Slovak cities - Bratislava, Zilina and Kosice - under the concept of creative city. The focus is on the implementation of a tailor-made multi-factor knowledge management model with the aim of exploring the knowledge management practices in urban development projects dealing with the adaptive re-use of industrial and cultural heritage based on the non-profit bottom-up initiatives.
The paper focuses on sharing economy practices from the business perspective. It points out the current misperception of the term "sharing economy" among consumers resulting from its predominant connection with altruistic motives while ignoring its economic impact. On the other hand, it highlights a growing controversy about sharing economy platforms and describes the emergence of new business models based on hybrid market exchanges. Unfair business practices hidden under the label of sharing economy jeopardize the promising peer-to-peer market exchange system. Taking into account the current evolution of sharing economy, the author assumes that instead of having unrealistic altruistic expectations we shall accept sharing economy activities as regular business models. At the same time, clear rules and regulations have to be applied to all digital platforms involving monetary exchanges to make them operate under the same conditions as traditional businesses. As a result, the revenues from sharing economy shall be more justly distributed within the society.
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