hashtag #crowdfunding through the lens of social network theory. Using a dataset of 2,732,144 tweets published during a … calendar year, we use exploratory data analysis to generate insights and hypotheses on who the users in the #crowdfunding … from the crowdfunding economy play a key role in creating the network. Furthermore, latent ties (strangers) play a direct …

Various forms of social learning and network effects are at work on crowdfunding platforms, giving rise to … their common presence on the platform. We finally show that these crowdfunding dynamics stir platform growth, with important …

essentially based on interviews. We use it to a group of 264 cases of science-industry collaborations realized in France. Several …