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Crowd Funding for Orphan Drugs: The Case of Baby Pia
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Medical crowdfunding is a relatively new strategy to obtain access to orphan drugs. The case of Baby Pia, a Belgian girl with SMA type 1 for whom in 2018 more than $ 2.1 million was raised to get her treated with Zolgensma®, illustrates well the ...
Wim Pinxten
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Hitelintézeti szemle, 2017 This paper presents the latest results of international research on equity-based crowdfunding, and thus – according to the authors’ current knowledge – fills a gap in the Hungarian literature. Equity-based crowdfunding offers a fundraising opportunity through online platforms for small and medium-sized enterprises seeking alternative forms of funding ...
Kuti, Mónika +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) are expected to contribute more significantly to the sustainability agenda. Digital transformation (DT) has the potential to enable SMEs to fulfil their sustainable development goals. However, SMEs encounter unique challenges in leveraging DT for sustainability due to their size, limited resources and
Phuc G. Le +3 more
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Мир новой экономикиThe relevance of this study is driven by the growing popularity of equity crowdfunding as an alternative source of financing for small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as the need for institutional support for this market in Russia. The objective of
P. A. Balunov, Yu. B. Ilyna
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Harmonizing potential of equity-based crowdfunding regulation
Bratislava Law Review, 2017 Equity-based crowdfunding shows promising potential for funding the micro, small and medium sized enterprises. So far, only several countries have adopted a specific regulation of crowdfunding, while there is no crowdfunding-specific regulation ...
Ján Mazur
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Good news from mass media induces more investments in the equity crowdfunding market
BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2023 This study verifies the association between the text sentiment of news items and the value of capital investments in the equity crowdfunding market. It also analyzes the influence of geographic attributes on the investments made.
Israel José dos Santos Felipe +3 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama +3 more
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How Is FinTech Shaping Household Portfolio Behaviour?
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how FinTech adoption influences household portfolio allocation across major advanced economies. Using a flow‐of‐funds framework and the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we model household demand for currency, deposits, loans, debt securities, and equity in the United States, United Kingdom, Euro Area, Japan and Australia.
Victor Murinde, Athina Petropoulou
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Religious investors and equity crowdfunding success
Borsa Istanbul ReviewThis study examines how Islamic religiosity influences equity crowdfunding success through messages on crowdfunding platforms in Türkiye, which lacks a sharia governance framework for financial technology (fintech). As the first empirical analysis of the
Murat Yaş
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Signaling in Equity Crowdfunding
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 This paper presents an initial empirical examination of which start-up signals will induce small investors to commit financial resources in an equity crowdfunding context. We examine the impact of firms’ financial roadmaps (e.g., preplanned exit strategies such as IPOs or acquisitions), external certification (awards, government grants and patents ...
Gerrit K.C. Ahlers +3 more
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