Democratizing Innovation and Capital Access: The Role of Crowdfunding

By Ethan Mollick, Alicia Robb. 2016

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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The evolution of equity crowdfunding: Insights from co-investments of angels and the crowd (2019, background): “The financial crash of 2008 created additional barriers to early stage funding, which in turn gave impetus to regulators in the United Kingdom (UK) to facilitate access to capital for early-stage ventures (Mollick and Robb, 2016).”
Dynamics of Lending-Based Prosocial Crowdfunding: Using a Social Responsibility Lens (2018, background): “Mollick and Robb (2016) further call crowdfunding the democratization of innovation and financing, which with the advent of the Internet offers increasingly “speeding and scaling opportunities for early-stage financing” (Vismara 2016, p. 580).”
In crowdfunding we trust: A trust-building model in lending crowdfunding (2020, background): “However, only some of the presented facts are validated by the crowdfunding platform (for example, some platforms check basic information like credit score, personal income (Iyer, Khwaja, Luttmer, & Shue, 2015), or business plans (Mollick & Robb, 2016).”
Equity Crowdfunding and Governance: Toward an Integrative Model and Research Agenda (2019, unknown): “4 entrepreneurial financing (Mollick and Robb, 2016), by engaging larger segments of the investing public and removing financing barriers for entrepreneurs.”
Equity crowdfunding: First resort or last resort? (2017, background): “Accordingly, in both the business press and recent academic literature (e.g., Kaufman et al., 2013; Mollick and Robb, 2016), crowdfunding in general and equity crowdfunding in particular have been portrayed as potential routes for entrepreneurs to overcome possible financing constraints.”
Equity crowdfunding, shareholder structures, and firm performance (2018, background): “…perspectives and backgrounds should foster smarter decision making in ways that simple experience or knowledge does not (Mollick & Nanda, 2016; Mollick & Robb, 2016).4 Generally speaking, the benefits of speed, scale, and diversity in experience and background of crowd investors ensure a…”