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The Tokenization of Assets: Using Blockchains for Equity Crowdfunding
In this chapter, we present tokenization of equity crowdfunding on a Blockchain as a possible approach to ease access to capital for startups. We...
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Blockchain and the Evolution of Information Society
Today we are witnessing a multi-layered metamorphosis of our culture and society, accelerated by the technological developments of the last decades....
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Moving the Topic of Climate Change from Politics to Economics
Rather than constantly reacting to extreme weather conditions brought on, in the most part by the effects of climate change, is it not now time for...
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Orchestrating Value Co-Creation in Business Ecosystems
In increasingly digital enabled business environments, value is generated through information sharing and manipulation among interdependent social...
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Machine Learning and Finance
The article provides a short overview of recent developments driven by the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or, more specifically, Machine...
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Social Enterprises: Investment in a Sustainable Social Development with Added Value
When setting up the first Social Entrepreneurship Venture Capital Funds in Austria, the institutional investor fair-finance had to find a suitable...
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Domestic Heating and China’s Sustainable Energy Goals
With proprietary datasets we examine China’s domestic heating energy consumptions between 2010 and 2015. We find that, together with the upward trend...
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The Money Pipeline: The Role of Finance in the Climate Emergency
Climate change is real. It’s happening, now. But if the constant flood of record-setting catastrophes in your newsfeed isn’t enough to get your...
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Change Through Crypto-Economics
Blockchains incentivize the network participants to stick to the rules of the network by creating economic benefits to them. That mechanism drives...
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Clustering of Negative Criteria: A Pragmatic Approach for the Implementation of SRI
In the Status Quo, Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) is still a niche strategy. While many investors are drawn to the concept, there are hurdles...
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Sustainable Energy Investment in Australia
Securing a stable and reliable energy supply future is a major challenge in Australia in 2018. Ageing energy assets and regulatory uncertainty...
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Towards a Unifying Framework of Impact Assessment in Impact Investing
This chapter highlights key challenges of impact assessment and argues for a unifying framework of impact assessment in impact investing. Given the...
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Theories of Change Change Leadership Tools, Models and Applications for Investing in Sustainable Development
Today, it has become strikingly obvious that companies no longer operate in an environment where only risk return and volatility describe the...
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Banking 4.0: Digital Ecosystems and Super-Apps
Banking 4.0 is characterised by digital innovations, fusing the physical, artificial, and biological worlds, affecting societies, industries, and...
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When Transparency Clouds Rather Than Clarifies: A Closer Look at Transparency Bias Within ESG Scores
As more attention is paid to ESG and more data vendors enter the ESG ratings market, the importance of data quality cannot be understated. ESG scores...
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Cryptography Leads the Next Wave of Societal Change
Blockchain technology has already shifted our thinking towards a different way of organizing and collaborating. Cryptography in peer-to-peer...
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About Bridges and Goals: On the Art of Change Management as a Bridge to the Goals for a Sustainable World and a World of Sustainable Investing
This essay outlines a comprehensive perspective on how a transitional path to sustainable living can be fostered. To date, most decision-makers see...
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Analysing the Credibility of Theories of Change
Simply put, and most unfortunately, current interpretations and applications of the Theory of Change concept have drifted so far from their origins...
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Y.1: The Biological Code for Evolutionary Transformation and Strategic Investment Decisions
How does transformation occur in living systems? How do they manage to transform themselves in a direct, fast, safe and extremely energy efficient...
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Theory of Change: Defining the Research Agenda
Theories of change revisited. In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the challenges ahead, actors must think beyond an...