Exploring Novel Funding Strategies for Innovative Medical Research: The HORAO Crowdfunding Campaign.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The rise of the internet and social media has boosted online crowdfunding as a novel strategy to raise funds for kick-starting projects, but it is rarely used in science.

Objective

We report on an online crowdfunding campaign launched in the context of the neuroscience project HORAO. The aim of HORAO was to develop a noninvasive real-time method to visualize neuronal fiber tracts during brain surgery in order to better delineate tumors and to identify crucial cerebral landmarks. The revenue from the crowdfunding campaign was to be used to sponsor a crowdsourcing campaign for the HORAO project.

Methods

We ran a 7-week reward-based crowdfunding campaign on a national crowdfunding platform, offering optional material and experiential rewards in return for a co

SUBMITTER: Schucht P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7688388 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature