the crowdfunding market in sub-Saharan Africa by 2025. The objective of this paper is to make an inventory of Crowdfunding … from the economic and socio-cultural realities that Africa is a region with more potential catalyst for crowdfunding … digital gap in their country in order to enhance crowdfunding industry takeoff in Africa. …

Venture capital, angel financing, and crowdfunding have evolved and matured in the entrepreneurial finance market … that aims to link venture capital, angels, and crowdfunding whilst considering the significant differences exhibited …

There have been significant changes in the financing of early-stage innovative companies since the beginning of this … decade. The importance of institutional venture capital funds' investments declined in financing startups and early …-stage ventures. At the same time, alternative sources of financing early-stage companies increased. Alternative sources of funding …

cultural and commercial entrepreneurs through reward crowdfunding. We propose that backers of commercial campaigns are a …-minded individuals. We use data from the largest German crowdfunding platform, Startnext, and analyze 2334 rewards from 225 cultural and …

There have been significant changes in the financing of early-stage innovative companies since the beginning of this … decade. The importance of institutional venture capital funds' investments declined in financing startups and early …-stage ventures. At the same time, alternative sources of financing early-stage companies increased. Alternative sources of funding …

Goal amounts set by entrepreneurs in reward-based crowdfunding campaigns exhibit clear clustering at round numbers. The …

For the last decade economists have been preoccupied with the decline in bank financing to small businesses and … entrepreneurs. This effort has produced a better understanding of the obstacles to external financing. We examine the market and …

We show that the rise of crowdfunding over the past decade fostered entrepreneurship and output growth in the United …. Moreover, we uncover that crowdfunding boosts entrepreneurship by reducing geographic and demographic frictions in offline … present early evidence that this crowdfunding-entrepreneurship nexus matters significantly for growth …

Crowdfunding has recently gained ground as an alternative financing means, particularly for start-ups and risky … both for educators designing higher education programmes in the field of entrepreneurship, as well as for crowdfunding … enterprises. We hereby analyse Romanian and South Korean students' intentions to use crowdfunding in their future ventures. Using …

cultural and creative industries or academic entrepreneurship. Ultimately, a potpourri of manifold spatial metaphors connected …