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. …

of crowdfunding platforms by small businesses and startups. It presents the findings from a systematic review to better … as challenges for project initiators as well as for crowd-investors, if they are considering equity crowdfunding, peer …-to-peer (P2P) lending and rewards-based crowdfunding platforms, among others, to raise awareness about their projects, and to …

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 …

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

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 …

Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for … entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship …

Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for … entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship …

-based hometown investment trust (HIT) fund address this issue and offer a way of financing for those projects. Technical developments … a concrete application of DLTs in the field of green financing, which offers the potential to increase social welfare …