The CASI Consortium has recently released the 4th round of national level policy briefs covering 24 EU countries. This round focuses on crowdfunding in sustainable innovation and its developments at the strategic, programming and operational levels.
“…Crowdfunding is a large and rapidly growing business, with a volume of 16.2b$ in 2014 which is estimated to double to 34.4b$ in 2015 (Massolution 2015). Investments in Europe are estimated at 945 m€ across hundreds of platforms. Prevalent practices in crowdfunding and popular crowdfunding sites with programmes for sustainable innovation
(cf. Crowdfunding.com 2015) provide alternatives to commission funding schemes such as COSME (planned budget of 2.3b€ for 2014-2020) and Horizon 2020’s SME instrument (about 3 b€ for 2014-2020)…”
You are invited to browse the CASI Library and download the full briefs here. Using the ‘EU28 relevance’ filter would help you find briefs relevant to a country of your interest.
