New players in entrepreneurial finance and why they are there

Small Business Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 239-250

  Block, Joern H ^a,b   Colombo, Massimo G ^c   Cumming, Douglas J ^d   Vismara, Silvio ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding; Entrepreneurial finance; Financing instruments; New players; SME financing; Trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009829137     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-016-9826-6     Document Type: Article

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