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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. Academic Research

Authors : Gregor Dorfleitner, Lars Hornuf, Matthias Schmitt, Martina Weber

Published in: FinTech in Germany

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Abstract

In order to assess the significance of previous findings in this book regarding the development of the market size, drivers of growth, and future projections of the German FinTech market in the academic context, the following section will provide a brief overview of the national and international academic literature. This overview will survey the relevant research pertaining to the donation and reward-based crowdfunding, crowdinvesting, crowdlending, and social trading subsegments. Particular attention will be paid to studies that furnish data pertaining to German FinTech businesses.

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Footnotes
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Since most of the findings we report are based on empirical articles that Lars Hornuf and coauthors have conducted as part of this research project, he would like to acknowledge the support of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) under the grant number HO 5296/1-1.
 
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Metadata
Title
Academic Research
Authors
Gregor Dorfleitner
Lars Hornuf
Matthias Schmitt
Martina Weber
Copyright Year
2017
Book
FinTech in Germany

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-54665-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-54666-7

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54666-7_7