Last posts on cancer research uk2026-11-12T05:37:13+01:00All Rights Reserved blogSpirithttps://starter.blogspirit.com/https://starter.blogspirit.com/en/explore/posts/tag/cancer%20research%20uk/atom.xmlAndrea Gaggiolihttp://gaggio.blogspirit.com/about.htmlCrowdfunding science: utopia or reality?tag:gaggio.blogspirit.com,2010-10-04:19891682010-10-04T17:28:00+02:002010-10-04T17:28:00+02:00 Several initiatives are exploring the potential of crowdfunding for...
<p style="text-align: justify;">Several initiatives are exploring the potential of crowdfunding for supporting scientific research. In this approach, that I described in a <a href="http://www.edf.org/documents/8890_Halpern_etal_Science_2008_letters.pdf" target="_blank">letter to Scienc</a>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.<br /> <br /> The closest example of crowdfunding science is <a href="http://myprojects.cancerresearchuk.org/" target="_blank">Cancer Research UK's MyProjects scheme</a> (http://myprojects.cancerresearchuk.org/). Launched in October 2008, MyProjects allows Cancer Research UK donors to search projects by type of cancer and location to find a specific research project to donate money.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">I am also running a crowdfunding-science project in Italy, called <a href="http://www.opengenius.org" target="_blank">Open Genius</a>. The website is available only in Italian, but you can find the essential info about the project in this presentation.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><object height="355" width="380" data="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=opengeniusinfo-100920063510-phpapp02&stripped_title=open-genius-crowdfunding-science&userName=gag4all" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> <param name="id" value="__sse5239819" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="src" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=opengeniusinfo-100920063510-phpapp02&stripped_title=open-genius-crowdfunding-science&userName=gag4all" /> <param name="name" value="__sse5239819" /> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">I wish to hear your comments about this!</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://flattr.com/thing/69287/Open-Genius"><img border="0" title="Flattr this" alt="Flattr this" src="http://api.flattr.com/button/button-static-50x60.png" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>