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Virtual Issue: Crowdfunding and innovation management

European Journal of Innovation Management

"Crowdfunding, as a phenomenon, has experienced rapid growth over the past decade, in part because it offers entrepreneurs and innovators a funding opportunity for their activities (Mollick, 2014; Short et al., 2017; Testa et al., 2019; Troise et al., 2023b). As a financial innovation, crowdfunding provides an important alternative to traditional financing of new venture creation or innovations (Bruton et al., 2015; Block et al., 2018; Troise et al., 2020a, b). As a financial innovation, crowdfunding has gained a substantial amount of interest from multiple stakeholders such as governments, practitioners and scholars (Belleflamme et al., 2014; Stefani et al., 2019). Even though crowdfunding has gained substantial interest in the practitioner and scholarly literature, the research literature on crowdfunding is fragmented and sparse (Drover et al., 2017; Short et al., 2017; Mochkabadi and Volkmann, 2020; Troise et al., 2022c, 2023a). Scholars observe that this may be due to the fact that crowdfunding literature is still in its infancy (Mochkabadi and Volkmann, 2020). This means that crowdfunding, as a concept, holds promise for future research to advance our collective knowledge." (Troise, C., Sorrentino, M. and Schjoedt, L. (2024), "Guest editorial: Crowdfunding and innovation management: moving forward with platform-based innovation management", European Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 27 No. 7, pp. 2173-2182.)

This virtual issue collates papers on crowdfunding and innovation management in EJIM. The papers below are free to access from 20th January to 20th March.