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Investors or Givers ? The Case of a Portuguese Crowdfunding Site

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This is the first paper studying the determinants behind the different values raised by project and by investor using data collected from Portuguese crowdfunding platforms. We concluded that higher prize-moneys, expanded ad duration, and stating that the investment will be used for multiple ends tend to maximize the value that investors send to projects. However, there is a downtrend of the raised values observed at the most recent years that generates additional challenges for all interested on building, managing and promoting web-crowdfunding platforms.

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Minho, 4700, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Mourao

  2. MSc Social Economics, University of Minho, 4700, Braga, Portugal

    Catarina Costa

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  1. Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

    Sigeru Omatu

  2. College of Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Qutaibah M. Malluhi

  3. Department of Computing Science Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Sara Rodríguez Gonzalez

  4. Department of Electronics and Computers Division of Computer Science and Managem, Koszalin University of Technology, Koszalin, Poland

    Grzegorz Bocewicz

  5. Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Edgardo Bucciarelli

  6. Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Gianfranco Giulioni

  7. Zayed University, Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi, Utd.Arab.Emir.

    Farkhund Iqba

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Mourao, P., Costa, C. (2015). Investors or Givers ? The Case of a Portuguese Crowdfunding Site. In: Omatu, S., et al. Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 12th International Conference. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 373. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19638-1_13

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