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A snapshot on crowdfunding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article addresses crowdfunding, a relatively new form of informal financing of pro-jects and ventures. It describes its principle characteristics and the range of players in this market.
Hemer, Joachim
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Legal Regulation of Crowdfunding in Russia and Foreign Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The article discusses the legal regulation of crowdfunding in Russia and some foreign countries. Crowdfunding is analyzed as a category that is an integral part of ecommerce law.
Beletskaia, Anastasiia A.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Essential work, invisible workers: The role of digital curation in COVID‐19 Open Science

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 703-717, April 2025.
Abstract In this paper, we examine the role digital curation practices and practitioners played in facilitating open science (OS) initiatives amid the COVID‐19 pandemic. In Summer 2023, we conducted a content analysis of available information regarding 50 OS initiatives that emerged—or substantially shifted their focus—between 2020 and 2022 to address ...
Irene V. Pasquetto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Helsinki Startup City Guide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This thesis is a product-oriented thesis. The aim of the thesis is to create valuable and quality content for the commissioning party, StartUs. The content is educational and takes form as a guide.
Babet, Addou
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“Basic human things”: Investigating vehicle residents' continually fractured (information) landscapes

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
wiley   +1 more source

A CIVIC CROWDINVESTING INTO RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES: LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT PERSPECTIVE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Crowdfunding is a collective effort of many individuals who network, usually online, and pool their resources to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations.
Belani, Hrvoje, Ljubi, Igor, Rajn, Mario
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“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability in the Age of Platforms. CEPS Special Report. June 2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Over the past few decades, new digital platforms such as China’s Alibaba, Japan’s Rakuten and the U.S.’s eBay have grown from startups into multinational giants.
Baiocco, Sara   +8 more
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Digital business model configurations in the travel industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This study is amongst the first applications of digital business models (BMs) research to the travel industry. A systematic and comprehensive taxonomy of digital BM configurations in the travel industry is developed, supported by examples of real-world ...
Kucukusta, Deniz   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Socioeconomic and Indigenous school segregation in Australia: The role of institutional differentiation and fees

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract School segregation is an international problem undermining the performance and equity of education systems. Australia's secondary schooling system offers international insights into the causes of segregation owing to it being one of the most segregated in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, its long history of school ...
Michael G. Sciffer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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