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
https://www.makeuseof.com/real-world-use-cases-for-nfts-in-the-future/
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!