Issue Information

• Published date: 01 January 2019
• Date: 01 January 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2214

Blockchain and Other Innovations in Entrepreneurial Finance:

Implications for Future Policy

Volume 28 Number 1 January 2019

5 Blockchain and other innovations in entrepreneurial finance: Implications for future

policy

Robyn Owen, Ciaran Mac an Bhaird, Javed Hussain, and Tiago Botelho

Over a decade after the Global Financial Crisis, this special issue explores the innovations

in alternative non-bank finance that have taken place and their implications for future

policy.

9 Financing new creative enterprise through blockchain technology: Opportunities and

policy implications

M O'Dair and R Owen

Blockchain technology represents an emerging source of venture capital crowdfunding

for creative ventures, specifically in the music industry.

19 Finance pathways for young innovative small‐and medium‐size enterprises:

A demand‐side examination of finance gaps and policy implications for the

post‐global financial crisis finance escalator

Robyn Owen, David Deakins, and Maja Savic

Young, innovative UK SMEs are developing successful financing strategies, using a mix of

bootstrapping, collaboration and new emerging post-global financial crisis finance

escalator funding.

37 Exploring intersectionality issues in entrepreneurial finance: Policy responses and

future research directions

Jonathan M. Scott, Javed Hussain

Entrepreneurial finance scholars (and policy-makers) need to adopt an intersectional

approach to their analysis (and policy-making) and pay more attention to the interplay

between the owner-manager characteristics of ethnicity/race, gender, and social class.

47 Financing social enterprises and the demand for social investment

Fergus Lyon and Robyn Owen

Social investors are supplying increasing amounts of finance to enterprises combining

social and commercial objectives although these social enterprises are still more likely to

seek bank finance.

59 Small beer? Peer‐to‐peer lending in the craft beer sector

Ciarán Mac an Bhaird, Robyn Owen, Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd, Juliette Wilson, and

Angelo Bisignano

Peer to peer lending overcomes a number of issues relating to agency, networks, and

spatial aspects of financing.

Strategic Change: Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance

Strategic Change 28(1) (2019) CONTENTS