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The recent success of crowdfunding for supporting new and innovative products has been overwhelming with over 34 Billion Dollars raised in 2015. In many crowdfunding platforms, firms set a campaign threshold and contributions are collected only if this threshold is reached.
Itai Arieli +2 more
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How different Are crowdfunders? Examining archetypes of crowdfunders [PDF]
AbstractWe unpack the complexities of the crowdfunder community by identifying different archetypes of crowdfunders funding technology projects on Kickstarter.com. Drawing on the extant literature on innovation adoption and opinion leadership, we propose two dimensions of crowdfunders that capture the heterogeneity in crowdfundersʼ behavior: opinion ...
Yan Lin, Wai Fong Boh
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Israeli Crowdfunding: A Reflection of Its Entrepreneurial Culture [PDF]
Crowdfunding has its roots deep in the Israeli entrepreneurship ecosystem. Its characterizing elements of—collective individualism combined with flat social hierarchies, low degree of separation, mandatory army service that enforces innovative thinking ...
Shaked Gilboa +5 more
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A literature review and integrated framework for the determinants of crowdfunding success
Crowdfunding is an innovative strategy for financing a new business venture from the general public instead of seeking funds in traditional ways, such as issuing bonds or bank lending. This study aims to identify the determinants affecting the success of
Lingfei Deng +4 more
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Crowdfunding for health research: a qualitative evidence synthesis and a pilot programme
Background Many low-income and middle-income country (LMIC) researchers have disadvantages when applying for research grants. Crowdfunding may help LMIC researchers to fund their research.
Debra Jackson +16 more
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Crowdfunding in the Cultural Industries [PDF]
Cultural production has stood at the forefront of crowdfunding adoption representing some of the first crowdfunding campaigns on record. This development emerged as part of comprehensive value chain reconfigurations in the cultural sector, which were ...
Munim, Ziaul Haque +7 more
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Medical crowdfunding platform helps numerous patients access enthusiastic donors and address financial difficulties, but many crowdfunding projects fail to reach their target amount.
Shan Liu, Tingwei Cheng, Hao Wang
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Crowdfunding contracts in Iranian legal system [PDF]
In the last decades, there were innovations such as venture capitals, accelerators and etc. in order to make an alternative for traditional funding entities like banks.
Morteza Shahidi, Navidreza Keyvani
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Strategies for reward-based crowdfunding campaigns
Crowdfunding represents an alternative way of funding entrepreneurial ventures – and is attracting a high amount of interest in research as well as practice.
Sascha Kraus +4 more
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Optimal Crowdfunding Design [PDF]
We characterize optimal reward-based crowdfunding where production is contingent on an aggregate funding threshold. Crowdfunding adapts project implementation to demand (market-testing) and its multiple prices enhance rent-extraction via pivotality, even for large crowds, indeed arbitrarily large if tastes are correlated.
Matthew Ellman, Sjaak Hurkens
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