Crowdfunding for financing wearable technologies

We explore electronic crowdfunding platforms as a means of receiving money and other resources by an entrepreneur from many parties for financing wearable technology project. The electronic platform determines the cost of funding for the entrepreneur and the return investors will receive per period. This research aims to develop a framework to understand and evaluate the quantitative and qualitative implications of various crowdfunding platforms for the entrepreneur and his investment decisions in wearable technologies. We consider a debt financing based platform and examine its operational implications on the entrepreneur's decisions. In addition, we identify the incentive problems that occur in these models. © 2016 IEEE

КРАУДФАНДИНГОВІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ У РОЗВИТКУ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ТУРИСТИЧНОЇ СИСТЕМИ

The article substantiates the sense of crowdfunding and determines a list of participants of crowdfunding projects. The author has proposed a scheme for implementation of a crowdfunding tourism project, indicating the main stakeholders. The author has substantiated directions of implementation of projects, using crowdfunding in the national tourism system. The author has suggested a “house” of crowdfunding for projects of the national tourism system. The article determines advantages and disadvantages of crowdfunding for the main stakeholders and the society.    В статье обоснована сущность краудфандинга и краудфандинговых технологий, определен круг их участников. Предложено процесс реализации краудфандинга туристического проекта с указанием основных стейкхолдеров. Обоснованы направления реализации проектов с помощью краудфандинга в туристической системе. Предложено «архитектонику» краудфандинга проектов национальной туристической системы. Определены преимущества и недостатки краудфандинга для основных стейкхолдеров и общества.У статті обґрунтовано сутність краудфандингу та краудфандингових технологій, визначено коло їх учасників. Запропоновано процес реалізації краудфандингу туристичного проекту із зазначенням основних стейкхолдерів. Обгрунтовані напрямами реалізації проектів за допомогою краудфандингу в туристичній системі. Запропоновано «архітектоніку» краудфандингу проектів національної туристичної системи. Визначено переваги та недоліки краудфандингу для основних стейкхолдерів та суспільства

Financing Healthcare Services for the Poor

This paper was written as part of Shujog Research's Financial Innovation for Poverty Reduction Series. It studies the challenges and gaps in the funding of healthcare provision in Asia, and evaluates several innovative financing solutions that can help countries achieve the goal of universal access to healthcare

FinTech (Financial Technology): What is It and How to Use Technologies to Create Business Value in Fintech Way?

We define FinTech as a cross-disciplinary subject that combines Finance, Technology Management and Innovation Management. The definition had been presented to different audiences with different backgrounds, such as students and business professionals in various events, we found that the definition provides audiences better understanding on what is FinTech and its potential. Moreover, in order to discuss how FinTech would create value for businesses, we summarized various FinTech applications into four major categories: i) payment, ii) advisory service, iii) financing and iv) compliance. In addition, we also discuss what are the emerging technologies in FinTech and how they could possibility create business values. We believe that this study could serve as a reference for researchers, particularly from technology background, on how to identify and develop new Fintech solutions

Emerging Technologies

This monograph investigates a multitude of emerging technologies including 3D printing, 5G, blockchain, and many more to assess their potential for use to further humanity’s shared goal of sustainable development. Through case studies detailing how these technologies are already being used at companies worldwide, author Sinan Küfeoğlu explores how emerging technologies can be used to enhance progress toward each of the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to guarantee economic growth even in the face of challenges such as climate change. To assemble this book, the author explored the business models of 650 companies in order to demonstrate how innovations can be converted into value to support sustainable development. To ensure practical application, only technologies currently on the market and in use actual companies were investigated. This volume will be of great use to academics, policymakers, innovators at the forefront of green business, and anyone else who is interested in novel and innovative business models and how they could help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This is an open access book

Serial crowdfunding in start-up development: a business network view

none3noEven though the crowdfunding (CF) literature is rapidly reaching its maturity phase, the topic of serial CF (i.e. the participation in more than one CF campaign) is as much promising as still largely under explored. This study thus aims to offer a thorough view of the dynamic and complex processes characterizing the participation of the start-ups to more than one campaign adopting a business network perspective. In line with an explorative research aim, a multiple case study analysis is performed by taking into consideration four start-ups engaged in more than one CF campaigns with different combinations of equity and non-equity CF, adopting the actor-resource-activity (ARA) model as theoretical framework. Multiple CF campaigns are embedded in the overall changing startup’s network and are affected by the concurrent and overlapping startup’s development processes. From this standpoint, the adoption of the ARA model suggests to reconsider the “serial” dimension of multiple CF campaigns. These processes can be more or less “linear” as they could be affected by the combination of CF schemes and by the degree of alignment of actors, activities and resources, whose “assembly” can be facilitated by learning processes and impaired by unexpected circumstances. This paper explores in depth the startup’s serial CF journey, building on recent studies calling for stronger analyses of the directions and outcomes of innovative funding trajectories pursued and implemented by new business ventures. From this standpoint, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to consider a complete spectrum of combinations between CF schemes within serial CF, thus allowing for a better understanding of the role of such a factor within a dynamic and contextual view, that is, that offered by the business network perspective. This paper also contributes to the Industrial Marketing and Purchasing research on start-ups.openFortezza, Fulvio; Pagano, Alessandro; Bocconcelli, RobertaFortezza, Fulvio; Pagano, Alessandro; Bocconcelli, Robert