I agree with you that universities might be better off going the traditional way. Instead, crowdfunding could be an interesting way to fund some out of the box projects that do not need “big funds.”

THanks for reading and commenting! I appreciate you reading and sharing your views.

By the way, I find her example for the film Veronica Mars a great example. However, more for the purpose of how one should not use crowdfunding. If Hollywood uses crowdfunding …. innovative projects may not get any. Unfair competition it seems.

Finally, I am not sure if this is worth it for universities to fund projects this way. Yes, projects that come out of the incubator may get some seed funding this way. But otherwise raise money from alumni using crowdfunding. Why should a university do that when it can do it better another way. Incidentally, getting a few millions for a building might be easier doing it the old fashioned way, meeting donors and talking to alumni?

I appreciate you taking a position on this. It is refreshing and useful for me to sharpen my own ideas. Merci.

Respectfully
Urs

Thanks for your message. Actually, the link is there. The word “reports” in the paragraph under “Crowdfunding in Switzerland” links to the article. I will make it more obvious since if you could not see it, others might have missed it too.

Thanks for sharing.
Urs
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