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
"If you do not protect your intellectual property proactively and early, you might have to protect it defensively later."
It is the using of new ideas that lead to the making of any new products, services or processes. That's why it is incredibly important to incentivize and protect the development of new ideas. With blockchain technology, there are completely new ways to protect intellectual property - and make its ownership financially attractive. Especially for sensitive assets traditional tools for protecting IP such as patents and trademarks can be too slow - Blockchain based solutions can be more suitable.
To give an example: Copyright owners are using blockchain to protect music files and other copyrighted content. As streaming media becomes the norm, blockchain technology can help safeguard against unauthorized distribution and help copyright owners verify their royalties.
Various startups and companies want to take advantage of this potential. In your thesis, you should identify these companies and analyze their business model, technology, advantages and disadvantages, pain points, etc. Then you should create an app that will allow protecting your IP in the best way possible.
🦾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 companies which offer services for protecting IP - What is their
- business model
- technology
- USP
- Pain point
- etc.
- Create an overview showing the companies and their advantages / disadvantages
- Build an app where everyone can mint their own intellectual property e.g.
- design
- text
- sound
- image
- code
- data
- etc.
- The final goal is to build and develop the website mintyourminds (we already own the domain www.mintyourminds.com)
... and earn money with it
🧠 Topics of Interest
- Intellectual Property
- Blockchain technology & NFTs
- Creating something yourself
- Entrepreneurship
- Innovation
- New business models
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for IP / Creating something yourself / Blockchain technology & NFTs
- 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 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!