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
Bitcoin - a cryptocurrency based on blockchain technology - was the first currency not to be controlled by a single entity. With the gigantic increase in the value of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin is now worth as much as the 7th largest company in the world by market capitalization (find more information here). But the fortunes of cryptocurrencies do not define the blockchain. In fact, the biggest impact of blockchain may be beyond bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, or even the economy. The size and scale of potential applications for blockchain technology are enormous, spanning a wide range of use cases in nearly every industry.
Many startups are in the process of leveraging this potential. In your work, you are to create a database on these startups with useful information for each startup (Founders, Field of activity, Country, ...).
🦾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
- Do extensive desk and internet research analyzing the blockchain startup ecosystem
- Build a database of blockchain startups worldwide - you might consider the following categories:
- Founders
- Field of activity
- Size (Number of employees, ...)
- Location (Country, City, Headquarter, ...)
- Funding (Total Funding Amount, Investor Type, Investment Stage)
- USP
- Contact
- Description
- IPO & Stock Price
- Founding Date
- ...
- Visualize your results (e.g. Which area of blockchain applications has the highest number of startups?)
🧠 Topics of Interest
- Blockchain technology
- Entrepreneurial activities and innovations
- Big Data
- Analytics
- Venture Capital
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for Entrepreneurship / Blockchain / Data / Venture capital
- 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
📄 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 (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!