Case studies and articles

Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, etc.

Ushahidi, a technology company in Nairobi, was developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election violence in 2008.

Lamoda follows a retail model unique to Russia, which has significant logistical challenges that make ecommerce difficult.

UpWork is a new web-based platform that brings visibility and trust to remote work and freelancing.

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LUNE has made all its waste separation tools fully circular and adaptive. New circular business models offer a pay-per-use lease model with withdrawal arrangements.

Chaordix utilises the power of crowdsourcing to help leading companies across the globe advance innovation, engage with stakeholders and market their brands more effectively.

Favor is an on-demand delivery service. With 10,000 “Runners," the company has made more than 1.5 million deliveries since its launch in 2013.

MobilityMixx is mobility solutions provider that has an all-in-one mobility card in the Netherlands to support all modes of transport for employees of companies.

The City Data Exchange is a software-as-a-service solution that will allow for the sale, purchase and sharing of a wide variety of data from multiple sources among all types of users in a city – ci

Parcify is a premium delivery service that delivers packages to customers based on their mobile phone location.

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Due to the cancellation of plans to  build a waste-to-energy facility in 1988, and the rapidly diminishing capacity at its landfills, the city of Austin decided to undertake a pilot scheme to deter

Uniti is a futuristic urban electric vehicle, which has its humble beginnings as an innovation project at Lund University. Unlike many other proposed EV's, Uniti has ambitiously set out to reinvent

Fon has built the world’s largest WiFi network, comprised of people sharing their WiFi.

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WeWork is a start-up at the forefront of the coworking-space rental boom.

Total Boox allows users to download as many ebooks as they want from a catalog of 50,000 ebooks.

Danish startup Spiri is building an on-demand carpooling service, similar to the UberPOOL offering.

DHL launched the unique MyWays platform to facilitate last-mile deliveries throughout Stockholm by involving the city’s residents.

ScImage is a privately held, employee owned company providing state of the art enterprise imaging solutions to the healthcare industry. In the more than two decade history of ScImage, the company h

Shuttel is a Dutch company of Volkswagen Pon Financial Services that provides an all-in-one card that gives employees access to all modes of transport.

eYeka focuses on the collective intelligence and creative power of crowds.

Handshake is an app and a website that allows you to negotiate a price for your personal data directly with the companies that want to buy it.

Fiix provides transparent, affordable, and convenient on-demand automotive repair services at the customer's home or office.

Terrapattern is the first open-source tool to perform “similar-image searches” for satellite photos. It’s become a first iter

Patagonia is an outdoor clothing brand headquartered in the United States. In autumn 2015, the company started its Worn Wear program under the motto “Repair is a Radical Act,” an initiative started

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Teaming is an online tool to raise funds for helping social causes with micro donations of 1€ a month. You can raise funds without a deadline.

Eat fresh, local, and responsible. online farmer’s market for connecting city rooftop farmers to consumers.

Creative swap is a week long event where creative agencies swap one of their talented staff with a creative from another studio, across any of the creative field

wireLawyer is the fastest-growing online community exclusively for lawyers.

Amazon is considering enlisting everyday people to pick up and drop off packages for customers. The new service, tentatively known as “On My Way,” would hire retailers in urban areas to store packa

4URSPACE connects architects, general contractors, engineers, photographers, real estate agents, and many other professionals to retailers who are building new retail spaces.

Uber Rush is an on-demand delivery service started by Uber. With the Uber Rush network, users pay only for the deliveries they make.

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World's first personal data marketplace. Datacoup makes it easy to connect data from the apps and services users already use. Datacoup is the only company that helps users sell their anonymous data