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 …

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 …

activity on the success of crowdfunding campaigns. It is found that more stringent platform disclosure requirements and risk … warnings are not associated with success of crowdfunding campaigns. However, owner experience and firm-specific financial … statement information are correlated with crowdfunding success. Moreover, social networking, at least as measured by the …

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 …

-level information about the “active search for VC financing”. Alternatively, we exploit the cross-local communities variation in the …