📌 Key facts
💡 Background
Blockchain has spread beyond the world of cryptocurrencies, finding its way to concrete applications within the automotive sector. It is a viable solution to innovations such as vehicle-to-vehicle communication, secure data transactions, component provenance and location tracking, as well as a gateway to new products and services.
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🦾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
- Creating an overview of the Decentraldized Ledger Technologies startup landscape in the area of the Automotive Industry
- Conduct systematic research on the existing and upcoming transformation of the automotive industry based on the use of Decentralized Ledger Technologies:
- Which processess of the automotive industry will be particularly changed by the introduction of DLT?
- What new services can be offered through the use of DLT?
- Will new participants be added to the value network and will existing ones possibly be displaced?
- What impact does DLT have on the medium- and long-term strategic orientation?
- Create an overview of the existing startup landscape
🧠Topics of Interest
Automotive Industry
Blockchain Technology
Decentralized Ledger Technolgies
Supply Chain Management
Smart Manufacturing
🎓 Profile
- Reliable and self-driven
- Enthusiasm for career management / your own brand & future / entrepreneurship / venture capital
- Ability to do sophisticated internet, desk research, and connect with practitioners
- Passion 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!
👉 welpe@tum.de