Bonus episode: Alternative Futures of the Platform Economy
In this bonus episode Timo Seppälä and Robin Gustafsson share the studio with three experts from the United States: Martin Kenney, distinguished professor at the department of human ecology at University of California, John Zysman, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, and Mark Nitzberg, director at UC Berkeley. While the platforms are offering us a bunch of great new business models, there are many unsolved questions. Talking about platform economy can easily lead to talking only about business and the bright side of growth. Are societies and businesses already too dependent on the platforms? What is the goal – what is a healthy platform economy? And when we are talking about regulation, are we actually defining who can have a voice?