Dr. William Davies is a Postdoctoral research fellow working at the center for pluralist economics. His Ph.D. was focused on utilizing machine data and traditional econometrics techniques to capture the drivers of success for crowdfunding, focusing specifically on the crowdfunding platforms Kickstarter and Kiva. After completing his Ph.D. he has begun to work as Postdoctoral research, where he is responsible for identifying data techniques and tools to assist 50 small to medium-size enterprises as part of an EU-wide initiative. He has also successfully published in the journal of technology forecasting and social change (impact factor 5.846, 2019) in a paper entitled "Signalling experience & reciprocity to temper asymmetric information in crowdfunding evidence from 10,000 projects".
