Crowdfunding in Finland - A new alternative disruptive funding instrument for businesses

Proceedings of the 17th International Academic MindTrek Conference: "Making Sense of Converging Media", MindTrek 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 194-201

  Lasrado, Lester Allan ^a   Lugmayr, Artur ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding; Disruption; Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial finance; Finland; Motivation; Social media

Indexed keywords

CROWDFUNDING; DISRUPTION; ENTREPRENEUR; FINLAND; SOCIAL MEDIA;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 84893335431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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