THIRD ANNUAL ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM
Date / time:
9.18.15 - 8:00am
Third Annual Academic Symposium on Crowdfunding
September 18th, 2015 @ UC Berkeley
We invite submissions for our third annual academic symposium on crowdfunding, sponsored by the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, UC Berkeley College of Engineering and the Finance Group and Center for Social Sector Leadership of the Haas School of Business. We welcome submissions from a wide array of fields, including finance, innovation, entrepreneurship, regulation & law, economics, marketing, and big data strategy and technology.
The following list of topics may serve as a guide for submissions, but we welcome research papers that fit broadly within the discussion of crowdfunding and how it is evolving. Please send your paper submissions to Hazel Palaski by June 1, 2015: hpalaski@berkeley.edu.
• Funding Mechanisms and Patterns
• JOBS Act and Equity Crowdfunding
• Information Advantages in the Crowd
• Models of Startup/Angel Crowdfunding and Syndicates
• Consumer Behavior, Online Consumer Finance
• Disintermediation or Alternative Intermediation: The Role of Lending Portals
• Public Policy Issues from Online Consumer Finance and Syndicated Lending and Investing
• Legal Issues Surrounding General Solicitation and Investor Protection
• Crowd Investor Returns and Profiling of Crowd Investors
• Crowdfunding for International Development
• Crowdfunding by NGOs/Non-Profits/Social Ventures
• Rewards-based Crowdfunding and the Role in Market Research
• Geography of Crowdfunding, Clustering, Industry Concentration
Conference Chairs:
Adair Morse, Finance Group, Haas School of Business: morse@haas.berkeley.edu
Lee Fleming, Fung Institute: lfleming@ieor.berkeley.edu
Executive Committee:
Alicia Robb, Fung Institute & Kauffman Foundation: aliciarobb@berkeley.edu
Ben Mangan, Center for Social Sector Leadership, Haas: mangan@haas.berkeley.edu
Hazel Palaski, Fung Institute: hpalaski@berkeley.edu
Olav Sorenson, Yale: olav.sorenson@yale.edu
Richard Swart, Fung Institute: rswart@berkeley.edu
Alex Krause
Research & Policy
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
4801 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
Tel. 816-932-1123
akrause@kauffman.org
@AlexKrause
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