"Crowdfunding in Higher Education Institutions" - Book published

10. August 2023

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Späth and Karsten Wenzlaff, together with Regina Lenart-Gansiniec from Jagiellonian University of Krakow (Poland), have published their book on "Crowdfunding in Higher Education Institutions". The book provides an overview of the research and theory of using Crowdfunding in teaching and learning at universities. The book joins perspectives from Germany, Denmark, France, Poland, Italy, Norway, Austria, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Finland, Turkey, the US, and Peru to discuss current developments of alternative finance and its application at universities.

Apart from editing the book, Sebastian Späth and Karsten Wenzlaff have also contributed a chapter comparing different higher education experiences on how to integrate the topic of Crowdfunding in business studies and entrepreneurial finance. The chapter benefitted from insights from other members of the team at the Digital Markets Chair, e.g., Vlad Lichtenthal and Sven Niederhöfer: 

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-30069-1_5

Karsten Wenzlaff has also contributed a chapter evaluating the academic literature on science crowdfunding, medical crowdfunding, and crowdfunding education:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-30069-1_2

Sebastian Späth and Karsten Wenzlaff are grateful to the following authors for having contributed their chapters: Alessia Pedrazolli/University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy), Alexandra Moritz/University of Applied Sciences Koblenz (Germany), Anders Rykkja/University of Agder (Norway), Anna Lukkarinen/Aalto University (Finland), Catherine Deffains-Crapsky/University of Angers (France), Eugenia Macchiavello/University of Genoa (Italy), Elena Madeo, University of Pavia (Italy), Friedemann Polzin, Helen Toxopeus/University of Utrecht (the Netherlands), Joanna Adamska-Mieruszewska/University of Gdansk (Poland), Natalia Maehle/Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Norway), Robin Buerger/Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena (Germany), Ronald Kleverlaan/University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Simon Kleinert/Maastricht University (the Netherlands), Sven Niederhöfer/University of Hamburg (Germany), Thomas Lambert/Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands), Urszula Mrzygłód/University of Gdansk (Poland), Vlad Lichtenthal/Aalborg University (Denmark), Wolfgang Gumpelmaier-Mach/FH Salzburg, FH Graz (Austria).

The whole book can be found under the following link:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-30069-1