Funding innovative projects is one of the most serious problems faced by businessudowners in Poland. Therefore, due to the difficulties of obtaining external sources ofudfinancing, crowdfunding may constitute a new source of fundraising for innovativeudventures. Therefore, crowdfunding – as a way of raising capital for projects – is theudsubject of the discussion in this article. The research aim of the article is to identifyudand evaluate crowdfunding platforms as well as the innovative projects carried outudby these platforms in Poland in 2014-2016. The first part characterizes crowdfundingudas a source of funding innovation and presents the nature of crowdfunding, itsudcharacteristics and models. The empirical part is based on inductive-deductiveudinference, desk research, i.e. the analysis of crowdfunding market in Poland in twoudresearch periods and a case study analysis. The article shows the results of theudresearch on the Polish crowdfunding market in 2014-2016. The author also presents audcase study of funding innovation on the Kickstarter.com platform by a Polish companyudSher.ly.
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