NFTs for science: Exploring the potential of NFTs for research and universities

Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Project Study or IDP

📌 Key facts

• Mission: Research on potential use cases for NFT-technology in the areas of academia, higher education, research, teaching and documentation of research and data. Put your research into practice by launching an app/service/website with applications for NFTs in science! • When: Start anytime. Applications are open! • How to apply: Send us an e-mail (at the end of this page) with your CV and a grade report and a tentative research idea (research question, data, and methods, possible outcomes with a tentative outline all in word as *.docx)

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.

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!

• Make your results visible by creating PowerPoint presentations on all relevant topics

🧠 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

How scientists are embracing NFTs

Is a trend of auctioning non-fungible tokens based on scientific data a fascinating art fad, an environmental disaster or the future of monetized genomics? Is a trend of auctioning non-fungible tokens based on scientific data a fascinating art fad, an environmental disaster or the future of monetized genomics?

www.nature.com

Blockchain for Research - Digital Science

Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that has the potential to fundamentally change many industries, which include banking, music and the publishing industry. This report will zoom in on the potential of blockchain to transform scholarly communication and research in general.

www.digital-science.com

munichNFT - for all creators in Munich and beyond

the world's first city NFT platform to mint and promote creative content as Non-Fungible Tokens from and about Munich.

munichnft.com

Could Bitcoin technology help science?

The much-hyped technology behind Bitcoin, known as blockchain, has intoxicated investors around the world and is now making tentative inroads into science, spurred by broad promises that it can transform key elements of the research enterprise. Supporters say that it could enhance reproducibility and the peer review process by creating incorruptible data trails and securely recording publication decisions.

www.nature.com

Could blockchain unblock science?

The technology has potential to solve some transparency problems, but there are many obstacles to clear first. COMMENT rico ploeg / Alamy Stock Photo Could a science journal run on blockchain? And how would it work in practice? These questions were addressed in an August 15 editorial in the journal Semantic Web.

www.natureindex.com

Science

www.science-inc.com

An overview of blockchain science and engineering

We are pleased to present this special issue of a collection of research papers on blockchain technology (BCT) and distributed ledger technology (DLT). These are vibrant research areas with high impact, notably in their applications to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Facebook's recently introduced Libra.

royalsocietypublishing.org

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!

👉 welpe@tum.de and christian.ziegler@tum.de