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Crowdfunding for SMEs (New Approaches to SME and Entrepreneurship Financing: Broadening the Range of Instruments)
This chapter illustrates the emergence of crowdfunding as a means to finance businesses and discusses its potential for financing SME investments. The chapter comments on the origin of crowdfunding and describes its different forms. It illustrates the profile of investments and business models that are suited for crowdfunding, it discusses the key factors that enable the development of crowdfunding activities, it describes recent trends in the crowdfunding industry, and it presents recent regulatory reforms and policies that are intended to ease the development of this financing channel, for both debt and equity funding.

Country Reports

- Adie Microfranchising, France (Inclusive Business Creation: Good Practice Compendium), 2016
- Australia (Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2016: An OECD Scoreboard), 2016
- Access to Work, United Kingdom (Inclusive Business Creation: Good Practice Compendium), 2016
- Assessment and policy options (Investing in Youth: Latvia), 2015
- Assessment and recommendations (Open Government Data Review of Mexico: Data Reuse for Public Sector Impact and Innovation), 2016
Thematic Reports

- Trust in the digital economy: Security and privacy (OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015), 2015
- Asset-based finance for SMEs (New Approaches to SME and Entrepreneurship Financing: Broadening the Range of Instruments), 2015
- Alternative debt as a source of finance for SMEs (New Approaches to SME and Entrepreneurship Financing: Broadening the Range of Instruments), 2015
- Access to finance: Venture capital (Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2015), 2015
- An overview of the digital economy (OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015), 2015
What Countries are Doing
Published by OECD in 2015