Crowdinvesting Symposium

29. Mai 2024

Das diesjährige Crowdinvesting-Symposium findet an der Technischen Universität Dresden statt. Wissenschaftliche Beiträge aus den Bereichen Finanzwirtschaft, Innovationsforschung, Recht, Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Wirtschaftsinformatik können eingereicht werden. Der Workshop bietet Wissenschaftler:innen die Möglichkeit, ihre Forschung zu Themen rund um die verschiedenen Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding und Crowdlending Modelle vorzustellen und Feedback von Kolleg:innen einzuholen. Als diesjährigen Hauptredner begrüßen wir Professor Andrew A. Schwartz (University of Colorado Boulder). In seiner Keynote-Rede wird er über sein neues Buch Investment Crowdfunding sprechen. Es besteht die Möglichkeit, mit den Gründer:innen und Manager:innen der lokalen Plattformen in Kontakt zu treten.

Call for Paper: CI Symposium Call for Paper

Paper Einreichung und Anmeldung: Registrierung

Whom to meet in Dresden

Erik Ackermann

Erik Ackermann is a Research Fellow at the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW, Knowledge and Technology Transfer Division. His research focuses on FinTech, in particular crowdfunding and blockchain-based financing, as well as crowdsourced innovation management.

Constantin Fabricius

Constantin Fabricius is the Managing Director of the Digital Lending Association e.V. He co-authored the first and so far only commentary in Germany on the EU Regulation on European Crowdfunding Service Providers for business which lays down uniform rules across the EU for the provision of investment-based and lending-based crowdfunding services related to business financing.

Stefan Flinspach

Stefan Flinsbach is the Managing Director of the OneCrowd GmbH, based in Dresden, which combines the crowdinvesting platforms Seedmatch for corporate financing, Econeers for sustainable projects, and Mezzany for real estate investments.

Prof. Gaël Leboeuf

Gaël Leboeuf is an associate professor of finance at Aix-Marseille University and is affiliated to CERGAM Research Center. His research focus on entrepreneurial finance and more specifically on crowdfunding and venture capital.

Tino Kreßner

Tino Kreßner ist Crowdfunding-Pionier in Deutschland und Mitgründer der Crowdfunding-Plattform Startnext.com. Mit der Finlane GmbH betreibt er zudem die Crowdfinancing-Technologie zur Förderung von gemeinnützigen Projekten zusammen mit Finanzdienstleistern. Er ist Co-Autor vom „Crowdfunding Handbuch“, Gründungsmitglied des Social Entrepreneurship Netzwerk Deutschland sowie einer Permakultur eG.

Iliyana Madina

Iliyana Madina is a Research Fellow at the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW, Knowledge and Technology Transfer Division. Her research focuses are crowdfunding as a crisis instrument as well as financial resilience through crowdfunding.

Prof. Raghavendra Rau

Professor Rau is the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. He also holds the Gresham Chair in business at Gresham College and the Ambank Chair of Financial Services at the Universiti of Malaya. He is a founder and director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN).

Prof. Andrew A. Schwartz

Andrew A. Schwartz joined the Colorado Law faculty in 2008 and was promoted to full professor in 2017. He teaches and publishes on corporate, securities and contract law, and has become an internationally recognized expert on investment crowdfunding. Andrew will deliver the keynote speech.

Prof. Rotem Shneor

Professor Rotem Shneor is a full professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Agder School of Business and Law in Norway and is the head of the university's Crowdfunding Research Center. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Alternative Finance.

Dr. Julia Sinnig

Dr. Julia Sinnig is a postdoctoral researcher at the ADA Chair in Financial Law (inclusive finance), Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg. Her research focuses on financial and corporate law, in particular FinTech, sustainable and inclusive finance, as well as the regulation and taxation of collective investment schemes.

Johannes Voshaar

Johannes Voshaar is a research assistant and PhD student in financial and management accounting at the University of Bremen and examines, among others, how technology influences accounting, accounting education, and finance. His research explores the implications of industrial robots on labor cost behavior as well as the use of mobile learning and generative AI in accounting education.

Karsten Wenzlaff

Karsten Wenzlaff is the Managing Director of Digital Investing Germany (Bundesverband Crowdfunding). He is also affiliated with University of Hamburg, the Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge University, and the European Centre for Alternative Finance at Utrecht University.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Zetzsche

Prof. Dr. Dirk A. Zetzsche holds the ADA Chair in Financial Law (inclusive finance), at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg. He further co-leads the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance’s House of Sustainable Governance & Markets and is the co-Principal Investigator of the “FinTech National Centre of Excellence in Research” project.

Forschungsdatenbank Workshop

Karsten Wenzlaff stellt in einem Workshop seinen neuen Datensatz zu Crowdinvesting-Plattformen vor, die eine European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regime (ECSPR) Lizenz erhalten haben. Der Datensatz enthält die offiziellen Informationen der Europäische Wertpapier- und Marktaufsichtsbehörde (z.B. Zeitpunkt und Art der Lizensierung, Geschäftsmodell, Länder der Lizensierung) sowie Daten über die jeweilige Plattform (z.B. inhaltlicher Fokus der Plattform). Karsten Wenzlaff möchte diesen Datensatz gerne mit anderen interessierten Forscher:innen teilen. In dem ca. 1-stündigen Workshop wird er die Datenaufbereitung und Datenstruktur vorstellen, die mitunter durch das ECSPR vorgeben sind, und erklären, welche weiteren Daten über die Plattformen gesammelt wurden. Karsten Wenzlaff ist Editor verschiedener Alternative Finance Benchmarking Reports und Autor des European Crowdfunding Market Reports 2023.

Tagungsort:

Als Tagungsort konnten wir das Dresden Impact Hub direkt im Dresdner Stadtzentrum gewinnen. Von dort sind es nur wenige Gehminuten bis zur Dresdner Frauenkirche und den anderen weltberühmten Sehenswürdigkeiten.