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The September issue of Nature Neuroscience has an editorial about the use of microfinance for scientific research . The editorial is a sign of growing interest from the research community toward this strategy, which I and my colleague Giuseppe Riva described in a letter to Science [Gaggioli, A, Riva, G. (2008) Working the Crowd, Science 321, 5895, 1443] Recently, we have teamed up with the Institute of Physiology of the National Research Council and the Italian Federation of Rare Diseases to develop Open Genius , a crowdfunding platform for research in rare diseases. We...

Several initiatives are exploring the potential of crowdfunding for supporting scientific research. In this approach, that I described in a letter to Scienc e donors can choose from a list of public projects. Projects seeking funding are stored in an online repository. Investors (either people or funding agencies) can decide which projects to fund. The closest example of crowdfunding...

Wanna make money with your blog? Do you have quality content that you would like to monetize? Now you can do it, with a revolutionary micropayment system called Flattr . The system was launched...

I and my colleague Giuseppe Riva have just published a letter in Science , where we propose crowd-funding - a form of crowdsourcing applied to finance - as a possible strategy to cope with the...