Creative Destruction, Disruptive Innovation and Shared Economy: An Evolutionary and Comparative Analysis

Since an evolutionary perspective from the conceptual point of view, this article aims analyze three concepts in the area of Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship. Firstly, creative destruction, whose purpose is to explain the emergence of new products and processes from innovations that deconstruct creatively the market. Second, disruptive innovation, which seeks to understand the reason for the bankruptcy of large companies, positioning themselves as innovations that cause rupture. Third, the shared economy, which is not characterized as a kind of innovation like the previous ones, but forms part of an innovative business model that changes the way people and organizations interact through sharing and technology. As a main result, it is possible to note that in all cases it is possible to observe the repetition of three phenomena, the competitiveness and market dynamics, the technological advance and the changes in consumption pattern.