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What is Crowdfunding

Frameworks for Blockchain Standards, Tools, Testbeds, and Platforms
Crowdfunding is a way of raising debt and equity with a collective effort of multiple investors through an internet-based platform.
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Blockchain Technology and Data Mining Tools for Combating Fraud: With Reference to the Banking Sector
Satya Sekhar Venkata Gudimetla (GITAM University, India) and Naveen Tirumalaraju (GITAM University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-0405-1.ch003
Abstract
For the last few years, rapid digitalization has been observed in the world banking industry, which helped boost global economic growth. At the same time, fraud cases in the banking sector have been increasing immensely. Regulating authorities of banks nationwide have been issuing numerous circulars and guidelines for preventing fraud incidents. However, fraudsters are taking advantage of the digitalization of and shortfalls in the industry, by which the fraudsters easily defraud customers and banks. Hence, it resulted in a worsening of the asset quality of banks and a loss of public trust and confidence in the banking industry. In this regard, banks must be equipped with sophisticated technological tools for fraud identification and preventive measures apart from the conventional systems and procedures since core banking solutions in the banking industry have evolved drastically over the last few years. In this context, this chapter is intended to study the role of blockchain technology and data mining tools in identifying and preventing frauds in specific bank products.
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Technology, Social Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship in the Quadruple Helix
An online platform to raise capital for a proposed venture, distributed across many individuals.
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The Future of Decentralized Governance With DAO and Web 3
On blockchain and web3-based crowdfunding platforms, projects can raise capital (funds) through the sale of crypto tokens to backers in a decentralized manner without an intermediary, providing greater transparency, security and opportunities for community governance.
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FinTech and Its Disruption to Financial Institutions
An umbrella term that refers to the practice of funding a project or business by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically through the internet.
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BeUsin: Savings and Investment Platform
Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the internet (Wikipedia, n.d.).
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How AI-Enabled Agile Internet of Things Can Enhance the Business Efficiency of China's FinTech Ecosystem
A way to raise money for an individual or organization by collecting “donations” through family, friends, friends of friends, strangers, businesses, and more. By using social media to spread awareness, people can reach more potential donors than traditional forms of fundraising.
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Enhancing Africa's Agri-Value Chains Through Digital Platforms
Also referred to as crow-farming, crowdfunding is a phenomenon or practice that involves the use of digital platforms to link farmers who need capital with sponsors who wish to invest; a form of ‘crowd-sourced’ financing in the agriculture context.
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Financing Nascent Entrepreneurs by Reward-Based Crowdfunding: Lessons From Indiegogo Campaigns
Fundraising operation through which an organization asks funds through an open call directly to a large number of people (the crowd), who typically contribute with small amounts.
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Paradigm Change in Financing Sources: Transition From Traditional Finance to Platform-Based Finance to Ensure Financial Sustainability
It is a concept based on the transfer of small amounts of funds owned by a large audience to financial units in need of financing.
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Crowdfunding for Sustainable Utilities Tunnel Projects: The Case of China
A new type Internet funding tool, whose character is the capital can be pledged from many backers to supply the project of founder with the advantage of Internet platform.
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Orange Economy and Digital Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Creative Sparkles Among Raw Materials
A way of seeking financing for an idea, business or entrepreneurship by who those are seeking funding make public the idea on a public platform on the Internet through different users bring small sums of money to achieve the target.
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An Overview of International Fintech Instruments Using Innovation Diffusion Theory Adoption Strategies
It is a new form of saving and investment formation, emerged largely because of the difficulties after the 2008 financial crisis when banks became less willing to provide project financing loans to entrepreneurs and early-stage enterprises. Hence, entrepreneurs started to look elsewhere for raising funds, such as project financing by friends and family, extended through social networks and social profiles.
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Exploring the Role of Social Media: An Innovative Tool for Entrepreneurs
A procedure of financing funds for a project by soliciting contributions from a large number of individuals over the internet.
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Lending Crowdfunding and Regional Development: An Empirical Study
Fundraising operation through which an organization asks funds through an open call directly to a large number of people (the crowd), who typically contribute with small amounts.
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Return of Fandom in the Digital Age With the Rise of Social Media
An initiative that is undertaken to raise money for new projects by collecting small amounts of investment from a large volume of people (i.e. crowd). In fandom culture, crowdfunding projects may be based on donations, sponsorship, pre-selling, lending and so on.
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Digital Fandom Overseas: How Do Turkish Television Fans in Latin America Do It All?
Raising money (usually small amounts) to fund a project.
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Developments on Sustainable Finance: A Growth Opportunity for Global Economy
Crowdfunding is a method of funding a project or venture by raising capital through the collective efforts of a large number of individual investors primarily via the Internet.
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Fintech Ecosystem and Banking: The Case of Turkey
Crowdfunding is the transfer of certain amounts of capital from a large number of people, in particular to fund a business venture through Fintech platforms.
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Brazilian Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Portugal and the Challenges of Crowdfunding
Fundraising operation through which an organization asks funds through an open call directly to a large number of people (the crowd), who typically contribute with small amounts of money.
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New Ways to Finance Micro and Small Enterprises in Agriculture
A way of funding a project (cause) where a larger number of people contribute a smaller amount (to meet a specific goal).
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Crowdfunding as a Financial Tool for Social Enterprises: The Funding Performance of Social and Environmental Projects in Crowdfunding
Financing a project or business by raising money from a large number of backers using online crowdfunding platforms.
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Running Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns for Non-Profits
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Open Innovation as a Business Entrepreneurship Strategy: The Consumer as Value Creator in Digital Ecosystems
refers to the disposition of a large amount of people to voluntarily fund projects that are considered interesting in exchange for some reward, either in the form of participation in the financed business, a special price or promotion or any other form of payoff.
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Use of AI in Predicting Trends in Vegetation Dynamics in Africa
Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, in modern times typically via the Internet. It is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. In 2015, over US$34 billion were raised worldwide by crowdfunding.
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Resurgence of Crowdfunding During the Corona Pandemic: An Overview
A large number of people/crowds, financially support a project or a cause by contributing small amount either in return of a reward or equity or contribute as a donation.
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Social Networking Sites, Online Social Capital, and the Success of Crowdfunding Campaigns
An open call for the provision of financial resources, to gather either donation or in exchange of reward and/or voting rights in order to support initiatives for specific purposes.
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Financial Sustainability of SMEs Through Islamic Crowdfunding
The practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from many people, typically via the Internet.
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A Magical Tool for Social Entrepreneurship: Crowdfunding
The practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the internet.
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A Framework for Ameliorating Risk in Australian University Crowdfunding
Raising funds from a group of people for a project or cause, typically using the internet ( Harms, 2007 ; Kappel, 2009 ).
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Growth of Green Investments Through FinTech Innovations
a way for raising a fund from large number of investors without involvement of traditional methods of banking or any financial institutions.
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Financial Accessibility and Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia: The Role of Crowdfunding and Islamic Finance
The practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people who each contribute a relatively small amount, typically via the Internet.
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Social Entrepreneurship and Related Concepts: The Path of Opportunity to Foster New Ventures
Also known as collective or mass-financing, is a new method for financing a range of initiatives such as businesses, cultural activities, social projects, etc. allowing the founders to request funds from many people each who usually provides a relatively limited sum.
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Crowdfunding Framework in Islamic Finance
It is an innovative process to raise funds usually in small amounts from a large population called as crowd through online application/website.
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Crowdfunding for Non-Profits: Opportunities and Challenges
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A Tale of Two Hyperlocal Family-Run Stores: Targeted Sector Supports for SMEs in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
Going to the mass public through social media accounts to raise funds for particular projects, or endeavors.
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Digital Inclusion, Crowdfunding, and Crowdsourcing in Brazil: A Brief Review
Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people, typically via the Internet. One early-stage equity expert described it as the practice of raising funds from two or more people over the internet towards a common Service, Project, Product, Investment, Cause, and Experience. Three types of actors fuel the crowdfunding model: the project initiator who proposes the idea and/or project to be funded; individuals or groups who support the idea; and a moderating organization (the “platform”) that brings the parties together to launch the idea.
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Smartphone Solutions for Citizen-Centered Risk Monitoring in Environmental Disaster Situations
A method of fundraising via online platforms that allows details of any project to be published on the web and investment to be collected from individuals who are interested in investing in it. If put to good use, it can yield not only funding but also good public relations and networks.
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Preserving Memory Through Branding: Museums Brands as Vectors for Advocacy, Promotion and Public Programming
A type of fundraising; a collaborative process through which a group of individuals financially support a cause or an initiative. It is a bottom-up microfinance practice that mobilizes people and resources. It can be used to support different causes, including arts projects.
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Financing Social Enterprises: A Systematic Approach
An umbrella term that refers to the practice of funding a project or business by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically through the internet.
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