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CALIFORNIA MANAGEMENT REVIEW
Volume 58, Issue 2, Pages 72-87Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1525/cmr.2016.58.2.72
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Capital Investment; Crowdsourcing; Organizational Behavior; Women in Business; Commercialization; Disruptive Technology; Entrepreneurship; Innovation
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This article focuses on how crowdfunding might democratize the commercialization of innovation as well as financing. First, it examines how crowdfunders decide what effort to support and asks how do crowd and expert decisions differ? Second, it investigates whether crowdfunding democratizes access to capital by asking whether groups that have historically been underrepresented in capital markets gain additional access to capital markets through crowdfunding. Finally, it investigates whether crowdfunding leads to the growth of new firms in the same way that traditional funding does. Taken together, these questions point at a potentially vast alternative infrastructure for developing, funding, and commercializing innovation.
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