Crowdfunding in Italy: state of the art and future prospects

Journal title ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE
Author/s Giancarlo Giudici, Massimiliano Guerini, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2013/4 Language Italian
Pages 16 P. 173-188 File size 197 KB
DOI 10.3280/POLI2013-004008
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The article presents the status of the crowdfunding market in Italy and discusses its future prospects. After defining the crowdfunding phenomenon and highlighting its main elements, we present the results from the Italian Crowdfunding Observatory, managed by the three authors at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico of Milano.

Keywords: Crowdfunding, piattaforme di crowdfunding, progetti di crowdfunding

Jel codes: G20, G23

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Giancarlo Giudici, Massimiliano Guerini, Cristina Rossi-Lamastra, Crowdfunding in Italy: state of the art and future prospects in "ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE " 4/2013, pp 173-188, DOI: 10.3280/POLI2013-004008