Earlier this week Forbes contributor Devin Thorpe interviewed three professors regarding their recent report on patterns in crowdfunding markets.
Serious academic research in the nascent field of crowdfunding is limited, but Gordon Burtch of the University of Minnesota, Anindya Ghose of New York University and Sunil Wattal of Temple University have recently published their study of contribution patterns in crowdfunding.
They drew some interesting conclusions about the motivations of backers and the nature of crowdfunding campaigns. Watch below…