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Researchers are already using kickstarter, kiva and other sites to fund their projects. Why a new site?

• mcrider 15y ago
  I think it would be valuable for a number of reasons to have a community of researchers and research-funders rather than a general community of people that need money and people that want to give money away. The main reason being that it would make it more likely for experts to frequent the site and spend money (i.e. researchers could subscribe to a field of interest to get updates on new projects). Also, I think the incentives would have to be different than current crowdfunding sites -- in some cases I think it would need to be donation based (which e.g. Kickstarter doesn't support).
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  • Irene 15y ago
    Social networking tools for scientists have not been really successful so far. There are charities collecting money for research. And there are rich donors giving money to specific groups in academic institutions. Charities would probably appreciate more traffic and exposure but there are google adword grants for non-profits and other channels they can use. Regarding fundamental, curiosity-driven science - it might be too expensive to be crowdfunded. The use of citizen-science networks might be more realistic.