Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Project Study or IDP
📌 Key facts
Contents
- 💡 Background
- 🦾Who We Are
- 🎯 Goals
- 🧠 Topics of Interest
- 🎓 Profile
- 📚 Further Reading
- 📄 Requirements to any Work
- 📬 How to Apply
💡 Background
An NFT is a digital asset that represents real-world objects like art, music, in-game items, and videos. But this is far from the end when it comes to the possible applications of NFTs. With the hype surrounding the new technology growing, more and more fields of application are becoming apparent in a wide variety of areas. Now it has also spread to the world of academia: For example, for the first time, an NFT based on digital data from a Nobel Prize-winning research paper by a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, was sold at auction for 22 ETH ($54,360), bringing the campus nearly $50,000. So what's next for NFTs in science?
This is exactly the question you should examine in your work. You will research literature, use cases and startups that deal with NFTs for science. The final goal is to create an app/service/website with applications for NFTs in Science and to visualize the various topics in PowerPoint.
🦾Who We Are
The Chair for Strategy and Organization is focused on research with impact. This means we do not want to repeat old ideas and base our research solely on the research people did 10 years ago. Instead, we currently research topics that will shape the future. Topics such as Agile Organizations and Digital Disruption, Blockchain Technology, Creativity and Innovation, Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation, Diversity, Education: Education Technology and Performance Management, HRTech, Leadership, and Teams. We are always early in noticing trends, technologies, strategies, and organizations that shape the future, which has its ups and downs.
🎯 Goals
- Explore possible applications - Secure scientific information online and worldwide with no risk of manipulation ...
- Conduct a market screening: What are the current trends and players regarding NFTs for science?
- Put your research into practice by launching an app/service/website with applications for NFTs in Science.
- Make your results visible by creating PowerPoint presentations on all relevant topics
You might also collaborate with munichNFT: munichNFT is the world's first city-NFT platform for creatives and artists who want to learn about, create, mint, auction and buy NFTs. The project is always open for new impulses.
Meet the team here. And get in touch on Discord and Twitter!
🧠 Topics of Interest
- NFTs and Crypto
- The future of science
- Creating something yourself
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for entrepreneurship / crypto / NFTs / science
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passionate to learn more about the future and do research with impact
📚 Further Reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjZObg_A3Jg
https://www.mpg.de/13417668/first-international-blockchain-for-science-bloxberg
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/science/nobel-prize-nft-berkeley.html
https://www.blockchainforscience.com/
https://cen.acs.org/people/profiles/argument-using-blockchain-secure-scientific/96/i46
📄 Requirements to any Work
We do not want your research to gather dust in some corner of bookshelf but make it accessible to the world. Thus, we warmly encourage you to create some or all of the following:
- Infograph - visually represent some of your work (find examples here)
- Slide Deck - summarize your research and possibly present it
- Extract most important sequences from podcasts, videos, and other media
- 3-4 Tweets about the most important findings and summarizing the topic
- optional: Medium Article - let people outside the university know about your research and start your personal brand
📬 How to Apply
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe and Christian Ziegler (e-mail below) by submitting your CV and grade report. Please also briefly outline your tentative research idea (research question, data and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)
We're greatly looking forward to hearing more about you!