Financial technology (Fintech) activities such as crowdfunding and blockchain that
developed with new technology is moving beyond an immature technology to being freely …

It is essential to improve the efficiency and performance of small and medium enterprises
(SMEs) due to their pivotal role in powering a country's economy. For SMEs, the limited …

In recent decades, drastic changes in global social-economic situations have led to
significant shifts in the financial market for entrepreneurial firms, thus resulting in changes in …

Barriers faced by women entrepreneurs have always been a hot topic in women's
entrepreneurship research. However, existing studies have often adopted either …

Crowdfunding through the Internet, a new fundraising technique for small business ventures,
can benefit fund‐seeking companies by helping to overcome funding difficulties, providing …

The market for entrepreneurial finance has witnessed the arrival of new players–specifically,
different types of crowdfunding platforms–which have joined the more traditional forms of …

Female entrepreneurship (FENT) has drawn substantial attention from scholars and
policymakers, given its economic and social importance. Although studies have examined …

This open access book builds on the European Union's (EU) Horizon 2020 project 'Financial
and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society'(FIRES). The authors outline how …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed some new light on the entrepreneurial finance
of green start-ups, for which there has been little quantitative empirical evidence thus far. It …

This study provides the first investigation into how reward-based crowdfunding is influenced
by economic policy uncertainty (EPU), one of the most important macroeconomic factors …