...Claudia Yáñez-Valdés; Maribel Guerrero Purpose Innovative initiatives focusing on social and environmental impact often need help to secure traditional financial resources for their launch. Equity crowdfunding platforms (ECF) provide a potential funding source for these initiatives, particularly...

...Abderahman Rejeb; Karim Rejeb; Andrea Appolloni; Horst Treiblmaier Purpose Crowdfunding (CF) has become an increasingly popular means of financing for entrepreneurs and has attracted significant attention from both researchers and practitioners in recent years. The purpose of this study...

...Valentina Cillo; Elena Borin; Asha Thomas; Anurag Chaturvedi; Francesca Faggioni Purpose This paper aims to investigate the intersection between crowdfunding (CF), open innovation (OI) and responsible innovation (RI) and identify the emerging trends and gaps in research and new paths for CF...

...Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji; Seyed Hossein Razavi Hajiagha; Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi; Donatella Busso; Alain Devalle Purpose In this research, extracting the innovation drivers of successful crowdfunding from the literature review, screening them for the entrepreneurial small- and medium-sized...

...Antonio Lerro; Francesco Santarsiero; Giovanni Schiuma; Ilona Bartuseviciene Purpose Crowdfunding models recently emerged as relevant enhancing systems aimed at fostering innovation and entrepreneurial dynamics. Accordingly, great attention has been paid to seeker firms' characteristics...

...Sanjay Chaudhary; Amandeep Dhir; Enrico Battisti; Tomas Kliestik Purpose Crowdfunding, an alternative funding source to support entrepreneurial initiatives, has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars. However, knowledge of the drivers and outcomes of crowdfunding is currently scant...

...Augusto Bargoni; Alberto Ferraris; Stefano Bresciani; Mark Anthony Camilleri Purpose This article aims to investigate the status of and the trends in the intertwining of crowdfunding and innovation literature by identifying, evaluating and synthesizing the findings from previous research...

...Edoardo Crocco; Elisa Giacosa; Dorra Yahiaoui; Francesca Culasso Purpose Crowdfunding platforms are important innovations that allow nascent entrepreneurs to gain access to financial resources and crowd inputs to better refine and develop their business idea. The purpose of this paper...

...Mark Anthony Camilleri; Stefano Bresciani Purpose This contribution aims to evaluate key theoretical bases that were used in previous research, to investigate the use of crowdfunding platforms by small businesses and startups. It presents the findings from a systematic review to better explain...

...Jeremy St John; Karen St John; Bo Han Purpose This study furthers one’s understanding of the motivations of the crowdfunding crowd by empirically examining critical factors that influence the crowd's decision to support a crowdfunding project. Design/methodology/approach Backer's comments from...

...Stefano Cosma; Alessandro Giovanni Grasso; Francesco Pattarin; Alessia Pedrazzoli Purpose A network of partners helps and assists a crowdfunding platform (CFP) in scouting, assessing and selecting projects. This cooperation increases the number of successful projects by attracting a sizable number...