Empirical Research Results: Description, Analysis and Synthesis

Nadine Scholz ()
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Nadine Scholz: University of Manchester

Chapter 5 in The Relevance of Crowdfunding, 2015, pp 45-63 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents the results of the conducted qualitative research in combination with a small quantitative study about the impacts of Crowdfunding on the entrepreneurial innovation process. While the main focus of this research involves interviews with successful hardware-Crowdfunding campaigns and experts in the field of Crowdfunding, statistical campaign performance data serves as a supplementary source of evidence. In order to illustrate the qualitative data in a meaningful way, the analysis is split into sub-themes according to the key issues derived from the literature review. These sub-themes allow reporting, analysing and synthesising the gathered empirical data, collected through the interviews within a set context of the Crowdfunding phenomenon (see chapter 2). This chapter is concluded by a brief summary of the main findings that serves as the foundation for the conclusions and discussion about Crowdfunding's wider economic implication in chapter six.

Keywords: Small Firm; Innovation Process; Early Adopter; Critical Awareness; Innovation Diffusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-09837-7_5

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