Purpose This paper aims to provide an in-depth examination of the emergent state of
financial technology (fintech), particularly emphasizing capital-raising innovations and their …

Reward crowdfunding is a popular channel for entrepreneurial fundraising, whereby
backers receive non-monetary benefits in return for monetary contributions while accepting …

Environmentally and socially oriented ventures have great potential for contributing to
sustainable development. Many expect crowdfunding to be able to unleash this potential by …

Purpose In this research, extracting the innovation drivers of successful crowdfunding from
the literature review, screening them for the entrepreneurial small-and medium-sized …

This editorial outlines our perspective on the state of literature as well as suggestions for
new contributions to entrepreneurship research in the area of crowd-funded opportunities …

Equity crowdfunding (ECF) has spread rapidly worldwide, however its use by university spin-
offs (USOs) along with scholarly attention to it, is still extremely limited. In this qualitative …

Equity crowdfunding allows entrepreneurs to directly access financing from a large number
of investors via Internet platforms. Recent research has started to examine additional, non …

Purpose The concept of donation crowdfunding has been drawing enormous attention as it
connects donors worldwide in a shorter time at a relatively lower cost. This paper aims to …

We use data on individual investment decisions to analyze whether investors in equity
crowdfunding direct their investments to local firms and whether specific investor types can …

Purpose Crowdfunding (CF) is a fast-develo** and multifaceted phenomenon at the
intersection of entrepreneurship, technology, finance and sociology. Although it is an …