Making money from your idle capacity – be that time and skills, or assets such as your spare…

Making money from your idle capacity – be that time and skills, or assets such as your spare room, car, or driveway – is made easy by firms offering platforms to connect supply and demand in the collaborative economy. Indeed, drivers for Uber or ride-sharing platform Lyft, hosts on AirBnB, or “taskers” doing odd jobs on TaskRabbit, are increasingly described as “micropreneurs”. Internationally, the collaborative or sharing economy, encompasses everything from labour hire (TaskRabbit; Handy) to pet care (DogVacay; PawShake), parki