Alberto Onetti

Firms' venture capital affiliation, platforms' "skin in the game" and the success of equity crowdfunding campaigns by Massimo G. Colombo & Kourosh Shafi 😀 Happy to have published this paper in the Journal of Industrial and Business Economics You will find it at the link below: https://lnkd.in/dn_weBfF In equity crowdfunding, it is still unclear whether unsophisticated inexperienced crowd investors use firms’ quality signals, even strong ones like firms’ affiliation with professional investors (VCs), in their investment decisions, or they disregard them. Signals revealing the platform’s private information on issuers’ quality may be more informative to boundedly rational crowd investors than firms’ signals. Our findings based on 550 equity crowdfunding offerings in the U.S. show that the positive effect of affiliation with VCs on the success of equity crowdfunding campaigns is mediated by platforms' choice of equity compensation (i.e., their "skin in the game") but only very partially. We interpret these findings as an (admittedly indirect) indication that crowd investors’ cognitive restrictions may be less severe than one might expect based on their limited financial literacy and investment experience.

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The Speerch Technology Lab at Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK grows bringing in fresh energy from two young talents. Prachi Sharma and Lorenzo Concina will advance our tools for speech and language technologies, contributing to EloquenceAI. Meetween and the Alliance for Language Technologies - ALT-EDIC projects.

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🎓 Promoting Research Impact: Activities and Skills of the Impact Manager A training course promoted by Associazione Netval and CODAU, in collaboration with the #ItalianResearchManagers network, designed to support RMA and TT managers in developing increasingly strategic skills. During the April module, hosted by the Università degli Studi di Torino, we explored the key role of public engagement (with Maria Letizia Guerra and Andrea De Bortoli), citizen science (Catia Prandi), open science (Elena Giglia) and data management (Chiara Basalti) in enhancing research impact. 📍 Today and tomorrow, at the Università degli Studi di Trieste, we’re focusing on technology transfer and knowledge valorization and its tools with Alessandra Baccigotti, Shiva Loccisano, Tech Transfer Expert and Cristina Dimaria. 📣 Want to know more? We’ll present the training course and its impact at: 📅 May 8, 12:35-12:55 Montevideo room – #INORMS2025 Conference 📅 May 23, 13:30- 15:00– #ASTP Annual Conference #ResearchManagement #ResearchManagers #TTmanagers #INORMS2025 #ASTP #networking #skills #impact

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More than happy to share the article "Design thinking in action: a quantitative study of design thinking practices in innovation projects" published by JKM | Journal of Knowledge Management and developed with fantastic co-authors: Stefano Magistretti, Marina Candi, Mattia Bianchi, Giulia Calabretta, Ileana Stigliani, and Roberto Verganti The article identifies six distinct sets of design thinking practices: discovering user needs, understanding the problem addressed, challenging existing assumptions, navigating the problem-solution pair, ideating through visualizations and learning through prototypes. It also describes alternative configurations of these design thinking practices that are used to address different innovation project goals and levels of uncertainty. https://lnkd.in/dQ45z_Tq #DesignThinking #dt4b #DesignPractices

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