Entrepreneurial implications of crowdfunding as alternative funding source for innovations

Venture Capital

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 171-189

  Lehner, Othmar M ^a   Grabmann, Elisabeth ^b   Ennsgraber, Carina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

business model; case study; Crowdfunding; entrepreneurship; globalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941972214     PISSN: 13691066     EISSN: 14645343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691066.2015.1037132     Document Type: Article

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