Program Overview

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This short course, Managing Emerging Technologies, provides you with an overview of the fundamentals of blockchain and its impacts on public and private organisations.

Blockchain is a new technology with widespread applications and important impacts on organisations and society. By allowing digital information to be distributed but not copied, blockchain technology has created the backbone of a new type of internet. Originally devised for the

digital currency

, a multitude of other actual and potential uses of the technology are emerging.

The course is multidisciplinary, reflecting the diverse applications and impacts of the technology. It provides you with basic knowledge about how the technology works, as well as user-oriented knowledge of a number of important applications of blockchain technology in areas such as:

banking and finance

management systems

government regulation

infrastructure development.

In addition, you will gain in-depth knowledge of the application of blockchain technology and its impacts in one specific field. The course also provides a theoretical framework for understanding the new technology and its impacts, and engages you in a critical discussion of the overall societal impacts.

15 credits at level 7