Crowdfunding in Higher Education Institutions

Regina Lenart-Gansiniec is an Associate Professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. As a scientist, she conducts research within strategic management, focused on organizational learning and knowledge management, and crowdsourcing. Her interest as well as the research projects granted by National Science Centre in Poland and European Commission include higher education. She is reviewer and member of the Editorial Board of many recognized scientific journals and scientific conferences in Poland and in the world (Scopus, Web of Science). She is the Editor-in-Chief of “International Journal of Contemporary Management”. Regina is a member of European Group for Organizational Studies, and International Society for Professional Innovation Management.Karsten Wenzlaff is the founder of the Institute of Communications for Social Media (ikosom), a Berlin-based research facility for new forms of electronic technology in Germany. His research focuses on alternative finance, FinTech and crowdfunding, in particularly civic crowdfunding and corporate crowdfunding. He teaches undergraduates and conducts his research at the Chair for Digital Markets at the University of Hamburg (Germany). He is also a research affiliate with the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at the Judge Business School (UK) and the European Centre for Alternative Finance at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). Sebastian Spaeth holds the Chair of Management & Digital Markets at the University of Hamburg (Germany). He teaches courses in general business administration, strategy, knowledge and innovation management. Together with his team, he conducts research in the field of technology and innovation management, with a focus on cross-company and collaborative innovation. His research interests also include the digitalisation of our economy and our private lives with all its challenges and implications.

• ​Introduction.- Part I. Theory.- Crowdfunding and Higher Education: beyond raising funds, a new path to outreach?.- Crowdfunding for Science and Teaching in Higher Education: Status Quo and Research Agenda.- Mapping the Knowledge of Scientific Research on Education Crowdfunding.- Teaching Alternative Finance Curriculum to Undergraduates, Graduates, and Executives.- Part II. Practices.- Experiences in Educating Students and Professionals about Crowdfunding.- Alternative Finance Education in Professional Education – The Case of the Cambridge Fintech and Regulatory Innovation Program.- Funding university-born projects and developing research crowdfunding ecosystem: the Case of BiUniCrowd in Italy.- Issues Related to Research Crowdfunding at Australian Universities.- Tokenization and NFTs: A Tokenized Income Sharing Model for Higher Education as a Potential Solution for Student Debt in the USA.- Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding in higher education in Peru