Crowdinvesting: Angel investing for the masses?

Handbook of Research on Business Angels

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 381-397

  Hornuf, Lars ^a,b   Schwienbacher, Armin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b Former Guest Researcher of Max Plank Institute for Innovation and Competition   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

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