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RADICAL INNOVATION AND EARLY STAGE FINANCING GAPS: EQUITY-BASED CROWDFUNDING CHALLENGES

Journal of Positive Management

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Title RADICAL INNOVATION AND EARLY STAGE FINANCING GAPS: EQUITY-BASED CROWDFUNDING CHALLENGES
 
Creator Deffains-Crapsky, Catherine; University of Angers, France
Sudolska, Agata; Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management,
Nicholas Copernicus University, ToruĊ„, Poland
 
Subject
radical innovation; uncertainty; early-stage financing; crowdfunding; equity-gap

 
Description Innovations and innovativeness in a business context is considered as one of the key determinants of competitive advantage due to its productive role in driving new markets and revenue growth as well as other value propositions. The success of this economic transition will pass by a context favorable to the innovation in general and to the entrepreneurial innovation in particular. Earlystage start-ups financing face particular difficulties. We focus on current challenges concerning entrepreneurial radical innovation financing. After presenting the radical innovation idea, the linear chain of financing and the equity gaps, our purpose is to discuss the role of equity-based crowdfunding, a relatively new form of informal financing of early-stage ventures. The main question of this explanatory research is to discuss if crowdfunding can help to bridge the equity-gap in financing innovative projects and under which conditions it could be possible.
 
Publisher Nicolaus Copernicus University
 
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Date 2014-06-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JPM/article/view/JPM.2014.009
10.12775/JPM.2014.009
 
Source Journal of Positive Management; Vol 5, No 2 (2014); 3-19
Journal of Positive Management; Vol 5, No 2 (2014); 3-19
2392-1412
2083-103X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JPM/article/view/JPM.2014.009/3809
 
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