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The Many Faces of Crowdfunding: A Brief Classification of the Systems and a Snapshot of Kickstarter

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In this chapter, we present the complex phenomenon of crowdfunding and its origin, briefly providing some useful definitions and concepts. We then present two different types of analysis: (i) a simple descriptive statistics showing interesting results about the most successful categories of Kickstarter campaigns; (ii) the potentials of adopting a time-series analysis approach to better understand trends in Kickstarter and to perform a simple forecast of future trends of successful campaigns.

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Campennì, M., Benedetti, M., Cecconi, F. (2019). The Many Faces of Crowdfunding: A Brief Classification of the Systems and a Snapshot of Kickstarter. In: Cecconi, F., Campennì, M. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Economic Modeling. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22605-3_4

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