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. NFTs have the potential to disrupt a wide range of industries: ranging from art over micro transactions up to the real estate industry! Many startups want to take advantage of this potential. But which startups are the most promising ones? What are the latest developments in the NFT-sector? These are the questions you should address in your thesis on state of the art NFTs and the most promising startups.
🦾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
- Conduct systematic research on NFTs:
- What disruptive potential do NFTs offer?
- Which startups are trying to leverage this potential?
- Which industries might benefit from NFTs? - find more information (here)
- Which new business models can emerge through NFTs?
- Create an overview, showing which industries are being disrupted by NFTs and what the associated top-startups are
- Determine best practices of Startups in the NFT world
- Visualize your results
- You may also interview successful founders to get first-hand experience
🧠 Topics of Interest
- NFTs
- Innovations in crypto
- New business models
- Entrepreneurship
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for Entrepreneurship / NFTs / New business models
- 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
Non-fungible tokens (NFT) | ethereum.org
An NFT internet The internet today NFTs are digitally unique, no two NFTs are the same. A copy of a file, like an .mp3 or .jpg, is the same as the original. Every NFT must have an owner and this is of public record and easy for anyone to verify.
ethereum.org
An NFT That Saves Lives | Hacker News
I understand that plenty of people were unimpressed with the internet when it first came out, but I was not one of those people. I got it and was online in 1995, I bought GOOG in 2005, and TSLA in 2014. So I'm not your typical technological naysayer.
news.ycombinator.com
Mark Cuban-Backed NFT Marketplace Mintable Raises $13M
Mintable - the non-fungible tokens (NFT) marketplace backed by billionaire celebrity Mark Cuban - has raised $13 million in a series A funding round from investors, including digital asset issuer Ripple. Mintable said the round was oversubscribed.
finance.yahoo.com
NFTs FM: Ep 7 : NFT Radio | Episode 1| Pseudonyms are exosuits on Apple Podcasts
This is Metapurse's NFT Radio episode 1, they are steam rolling with a tons of episodes released daily, will update soon. Great group of guests from Balaji S. Srinivasan, Pak, WhaleShark, Sriram Krishnan, Aarthi Ramamurthy and Metakovan.
podcasts.apple.com
The Rebirth Of NFTs: Moving Beyond The Initial Hype
Swelling in popularity in the first quarter of 2021, this year appeared to be the year of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as prolific celebrities, athletes, and musicians poured into the space awash with buzz and excitement over the revolutionary creative possibilities the nascent ecosystem presented.
www.forbes.com
How Does A Central Bank Innovate On CBDCs When They Belong To A Currency Union? Lithuania Chose Numismatics Based NFTs
When a country belongs to a currency union, the central bank of the country does not directly control the issuance of the currency. How the Lithuanian Central Bank issued NFTs to test CBDCs. In an interview with Marius Jurgilas we explore LBCoin and the central questions about CBDCs.
www.forbes.com
3 Ways to Make Money with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. There's no doubt that Non-Fungible Tokens are the most popular trend in the crypto community right now. From celebrities to respected companies, everyone is talking about launching their own NFTs. But not all NFTs are made equal: while some are worth a fortune, some can be practically worthless.
www.entrepreneur.com
4 Opportunities for Investors Who Want to Get Into NFTs
Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A century ago, French artist Marcel Duchamp changed the art world forever. In 1917, he submitted an upside-down urinal to the Society of Independent Artists's salon in New York, signed and dated with the appellation "R.
www.entrepreneur.com
Virtual hoodie sells for £19,000 as a non-fungible token
A virtual hoodie has sold for £19,000, bought as a non-fungible token (NFT). The black hoodie from the streetwear fashion label Overpriced, emblazoned with an expletive-laden logo in neon green graffiti font, sold on the digital art marketplace Blockparty.co to an anonymous bidder who, through scanning a code, can now "wear" the garment in virtual settings online.
www.theguardian.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
https://www.makeuseof.com/real-world-use-cases-for-nfts-in-the-future/
https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/02/explosive-inclusive-potential-nfts/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANABISyfAJ_iJ0fyMNhjyPsIR-ZnIq5j-tM6KvYxXClsJQLbQVUlzOssNtkSCjOfx-4njpBbDljgO6GBRLOBUlONVBEyti_Wl-EJ0zEuBGQQlMmAzGlpJfcn5RzuxzIbcuNPqwh7UmrxDN04QUix25PxqYwXKhoecCkH7v7vss3g
https://medium.com/topl-blog/nfts-beyond-the-hype-394aad428619
https://www.one37pm.com/nft/tech/industries-impacted-by-nfts-art-music
https://www.information-age.com/what-market-opportunity-nfts-123494763/
📄 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