Descripción del proyecto
La financiación participativa como opción para cubrir los costes de los proyectos de las pymes
Normalmente, la agencia austriaca de promoción de la investigación (FFG, por sus siglas en alemán) financia hasta el 50 % del coste total de los proyectos de innovación social de las pymes. Sin embargo, en comentarios recientes, la FFG ha descubierto que un número alarmante de empresas no solicitó financiación estatal, porque no podía conseguir fondos de contrapartida. La FFG lanza el proyecto SIM Crowd para averiguar si indicar a las empresas innovadoras las fuentes de financiación pública disponibles mejora sus oportunidades de financiación y hasta qué punto. La agencia seleccionará varios proyectos para realizar un ensayo en una plataforma de financiación participativa, utilizando resultados positivos para animar a los innovadores a cubrir los costes de los proyectos que no cubre la FFG a través de la financiación participativa.
Objetivo
The main objective of the proposed project is to conduct an experiment and test the effects of a “seal” (“funded by FFG”) and information about matched funding provided by a public funding organisation (FFG) on the funding decision of the audience on crowdfunding platforms. A randomised controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted within the existing funding scheme “Impact Innovation” of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency/FFG.
FFG first launched a pilot scheme for a new programme called “Impact Innovation” in 2017. A second call with improvements in communication and evaluation criteria was carried out until autumn 2018. About 30% of proposals in these two pilot schemes addressed problems or solutions that were classified as “social innovation”. A recurring pattern in these proposals was lack of or failure to provide sufficient funding to cover the total cost of the project (FFG funds up to 50% of total project cost). In addition to this FFG received feedback from the community of social innovators that a significant number of ideas was not even submitted because the potential applicants could not generate or demonstrate the necessary funds to completely fund the project (100%).
FFG therefore wants to test whether and how providing information on available public funding for social innovation projects will increase (or decrease) the chances to attract funding for the remaining 50% of project cost. This test will be run on a crowdfunding plattform for selected projects and – if the results are positive - increase the total amount of funding for successful social innovation projects and provide evidence for leverage effects of matched crowdfunding.
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-INNOSUP-2018-06-two-stage
Régimen de financiación
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinador
1090 Wien
Austria