Financial Innovation and Health Emergencies the Role of Crowdfunding Platforms in Italy

Abstract

Crowdfunding is a collective financing tool for projects of various kinds that in recent months has shown incredible ability to support the financial needs of the Italian health sector following the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 health emergency. The work analyses the contribution of crowdfunding platforms to overcoming the financial needs of the various health facilities operating in Italy and concludes with the conviction that this tool can be considered fully among the various sources of financing to which the health system, especially the national one, can permanently refer.