Recent work and projects
Publications and Conference papers:
William has presented at a number of international conferences on Crowdfunding.
"Capturing the Impact of Social Capital for Microfinance through Crowdfunding: a neural network Approach" which was presented at Predictive Analytics: Theory, Applications and Algorithms workshop, on July 2019 at Hughes Hall, Cambridge.
Network Centrality in Cryptocurrency crowdfunding: How can cryptocurrency facilitate social capital in supporting innovations?" Presented at the first Cryptocurrency Reasearch Conference, on May 2018 at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
“Transforming crowdfunding platforms into pseudo-social networks” which was presented at Anglia Ruskin Annual Research student conference in June 2018.
“The Role of Social Capital for Micro-funding: evidence from the KIVA database.” Which was presented at the International Telecommunications society Asia 2017, Kyoto Conference. Studying Crowdfunding for developing countries.
“Be impatient but not overambitious, a key for success of crowdfunding campaigns: Evidence from 10,000 Kickstarter innovation projects” which was presented in Milan at the 18th Institute of International Forecasters Conference (May 2016)
“Determinants of success in crowdfunding, identifying key factors crucial to success” Which was presented to International Telecommunications Society Conference in Cambridge (September 2016).
His paper have also been published
Davies, W.E. and Giovannetti, E.,2018. "Signalling experience & reciprocity to temper asymmetric information in crowdfunding evidence from 10,000 projects". Technological Forecasting and Social Change, CABS Impact Factor:3.815 vol 133 pp118-131. Whereby a subset of the Kickstarter dataset was utilised in the creation of this paper.
Additionally he had an article published in World Economic Forum entitled “There are six main traits that successful crowdfunding campaigns had in common”.
Projects:
Digital sector strategy report for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: This project was a collaboration between Cambridge Wireless and Anglia Ruskin university, "The Digital Sector Strategy represents a unique evidence base founded in primary research and secondary data, and extensive consultation with experts. It builds on strong foundations that already exist in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, and our recommendations aim to further enhance this region as the global centre of cutting-edge and inclusive technology innovation." In the project He assisted Professor Emanuele Giovannetti in the evaluation and analysis of the survey data collected from the key technological companies across the region. He was responsible for the creation of the majority of the graphs utilised in the final report.
Horizon scanning role for RSSB 2017-2018: He was hired to develop the horizon scanning capabilities, this considered how to capture ongoing technological changes which are going to affect the rail industry. The main aspect of this role was creating a tool which captured the ongoing advancements announced across the world which filtered through relevant news and technology articles, creating a specific set of results which were of interest to RSSB. With a second task to identify how connections between technologies can be networked together
GCGR Project 2017: This project worked assessing Policy Impact at a Local enterprise partnership levels. Specifically considering the gap between Econometric literature regarding impact assessment and current Local Enterprise Partnership policy. Identifying how techniques from the econometric literature can be applied to ongoing projects and what data would need to be collected in the future.
Innovation Bridge 2017: is a European regional development funded project which offers free support to help aid the development of business through innovation. This project involved him assessing the usage of crowdfunding for a new startup. A Pestle analysis was used to assess the current state of the company and then the multiple different types of crowdfunding were assessed, giving advice on what type of crowdfunding was most suitable.
Science and innovation Audit 2017 : This audit was launched to assess the current state of Science and Innovation in the East of England region. He was responsible first for transcribing and reviewing interviews on leading entrepreneurs in the Cambridgeshire area. As well as collecting supporting evidence from specific data, for example looking at the number of companies.
Import.io User Guide 2017: He was hired by Import.io to help them write their user guide. This is a software which can be used to extract data from the web via a point and click interface. I have used this software extensively over the last 2 years, capturing over a million data points on crowdfunding. He used this experience to aid in there creation of an in depth user guide.
Additionally while completing his PhD he worked as an associate lecturer, teaching multiple courses across the university. He has been the module leader for mathematics for economics and also taught econometrics and economics for managers.
Publications and Conference papers:
William has presented at a number of international conferences on Crowdfunding.
"Capturing the Impact of Social Capital for Microfinance through Crowdfunding: a neural network Approach" which was presented at Predictive Analytics: Theory, Applications and Algorithms workshop, on July 2019 at Hughes Hall, Cambridge.
Network Centrality in Cryptocurrency crowdfunding: How can cryptocurrency facilitate social capital in supporting innovations?" Presented at the first Cryptocurrency Reasearch Conference, on May 2018 at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
“Transforming crowdfunding platforms into pseudo-social networks” which was presented at Anglia Ruskin Annual Research student conference in June 2018.
“The Role of Social Capital for Micro-funding: evidence from the KIVA database.” Which was presented at the International Telecommunications society Asia 2017, Kyoto Conference. Studying Crowdfunding for developing countries.
“Be impatient but not overambitious, a key for success of crowdfunding campaigns: Evidence from 10,000 Kickstarter innovation projects” which was presented in Milan at the 18th Institute of International Forecasters Conference (May 2016)
“Determinants of success in crowdfunding, identifying key factors crucial to success” Which was presented to International Telecommunications Society Conference in Cambridge (September 2016).
His paper have also been published
Davies, W.E. and Giovannetti, E.,2018. "Signalling experience & reciprocity to temper asymmetric information in crowdfunding evidence from 10,000 projects". Technological Forecasting and Social Change, CABS Impact Factor:3.815 vol 133 pp118-131. Whereby a subset of the Kickstarter dataset was utilised in the creation of this paper.
Additionally he had an article published in World Economic Forum entitled “There are six main traits that successful crowdfunding campaigns had in common”.
Projects:
Digital sector strategy report for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: This project was a collaboration between Cambridge Wireless and Anglia Ruskin university, "The Digital Sector Strategy represents a unique evidence base founded in primary research and secondary data, and extensive consultation with experts. It builds on strong foundations that already exist in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, and our recommendations aim to further enhance this region as the global centre of cutting-edge and inclusive technology innovation." In the project He assisted Professor Emanuele Giovannetti in the evaluation and analysis of the survey data collected from the key technological companies across the region. He was responsible for the creation of the majority of the graphs utilised in the final report.
Horizon scanning role for RSSB 2017-2018: He was hired to develop the horizon scanning capabilities, this considered how to capture ongoing technological changes which are going to affect the rail industry. The main aspect of this role was creating a tool which captured the ongoing advancements announced across the world which filtered through relevant news and technology articles, creating a specific set of results which were of interest to RSSB. With a second task to identify how connections between technologies can be networked together
GCGR Project 2017: This project worked assessing Policy Impact at a Local enterprise partnership levels. Specifically considering the gap between Econometric literature regarding impact assessment and current Local Enterprise Partnership policy. Identifying how techniques from the econometric literature can be applied to ongoing projects and what data would need to be collected in the future.
Innovation Bridge 2017: is a European regional development funded project which offers free support to help aid the development of business through innovation. This project involved him assessing the usage of crowdfunding for a new startup. A Pestle analysis was used to assess the current state of the company and then the multiple different types of crowdfunding were assessed, giving advice on what type of crowdfunding was most suitable.
Science and innovation Audit 2017 : This audit was launched to assess the current state of Science and Innovation in the East of England region. He was responsible first for transcribing and reviewing interviews on leading entrepreneurs in the Cambridgeshire area. As well as collecting supporting evidence from specific data, for example looking at the number of companies.
Import.io User Guide 2017: He was hired by Import.io to help them write their user guide. This is a software which can be used to extract data from the web via a point and click interface. I have used this software extensively over the last 2 years, capturing over a million data points on crowdfunding. He used this experience to aid in there creation of an in depth user guide.
Additionally while completing his PhD he worked as an associate lecturer, teaching multiple courses across the university. He has been the module leader for mathematics for economics and also taught econometrics and economics for managers.