The First-Ever Academic NFTs for Blockchain Guest Speakers
The responsible teacher of the Strategic Blockchain Management course from the University of Oulu (Finland) has created the first-ever memorabilia in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to sixteen guest speakers from Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Italy, Canada, and the US. A single-minted and unique set of 19 digital arts Dr.Block that associate with the Finnish Doctoral Hat and Sword, which serve as a symbol of liberty, freedom of research, and the scientists’ fight for what they have found to be good, right, and true in rigorous research. The collectible digital arts are available on Opensea.io under DrBlock collection (https://opensea.io/assets/the-first-ever-academic-nfts-dr-block).
Owners of digital arts:
#1/19 = Teck Ming (Terence) Tan, University of Oulu, Finland (responsible teacher)
#2/19 = Tero Huhtala, University of Oulu, Finland (co-teacher)
#3/19 = Johannes Sedlmeir, University of Bayreuth, Germany (Guest lecture title: Challenges of blockchain technology in application and potential solutions)
#4/19 = Shaun Deanesh, PRA Group (Nasdaq: PRAA), Norway (Guest lecture title: DeFi and risk management)
#5/19 = Petri Ahokangas, University of Oulu, Finland (Guest lecture title: Blockchain and future business)
#6/19 = Tomi Dahlberg, DBE Core Ltd./Blockchain Forum/University of Turku, Finland (Guest lecture title: The use of Blockchain and the UBL//PEPPOL, ISO process and data model standard, to automate the exchange of supply chain and logistics data between enterprises)
#7/19 = Felix Bekemeier, University of Basel, Switzerland (Guest lecture title: Aligning economic incentives in the blockchain space: Specific views on crypto economics)
#8/19 = Jari Salo, University of Helsinki, Finland (Guest lecture title: Future of blockchain research in business studies)
#9/19 = Markus Lehtonen, Helsinki Blockchain Center, Finland (Guest lecture title: The roles of Helsinki blockchain center)
#10/19 = Marika Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland (Guest lecture title: Digitalization and the user Experience)
#11/19 = John G. Keogh, Shantalla Inc, Canada (Guest lecture title: Transparency and trust in global supply ecosystem: The good, bad, and the ugly)
#12/19 = Juha Partala, University of Oulu, Finland (Guest lecture title: The cryptographic blocks building)
#13/19 = Destan Kirimhan, University of South Carolina, US (Guest lecture title: Finance research on blockchain)
#14/19 = Constantin Ketz, ITSA International Token Standardization Association, Germany (Guest lecture title: Market standards for global token markets)
#15/19 = Kimmo Halunen, University of Oulu, Finland (Guest lecture title: Practical use cases for smart contracts)
#16/19 = Dominique Lepore, University of Macerata, Italy (Guest lecture title: Blockchain for supply chain management and as a marketing lever for Made in Italy products)
#17/19 = Tan Gürpinar, TU Dortmund University, Germany (Guest lecture title: Blockchain in supply chain management)
#18/19 = Jonas Gross, Frankfurt School Blockchain Center, Germany (Guest lecture title: Insights into the digital euro by the ECB)
#19/19 = The Designer GS, Finland
“We highly appreciate our guest speakers’ ideas, input, interactions, and enthusiasm in assisting us to deliver valuable blockchain content to our course participants, thus using NFTs is the most creative and suitable method to thank them in a blockchain-way. Personally, I think it is a fun and cool idea although people from the crypto space might not be interested in our first-ever academic NTFs,” said Dr. Tan. In this regard, each speaker will receive 70 percent of the initial sale from the net profit, whereas 30 percent is credited to Designer GS for her creativity. Eight percent art loyalties plan (share equally among the speaker and the Designer GS) is included for all subsequent transactions of the digital art.
The five-day intensive Strategic Blockchain Management Ph.D. course was organized by Assistant Professor Dr. Teck Ming (Terence) Tan and co-teacher Tero Huhtala at the University of Oulu Graduate School (Finland) Arctic Attitude Winter School 2021, from 15–19 March with twenty-seven registered participants. This course focused on how blockchain technology could serve as a strategic technology in business management by analyzing different capabilities and blockchain attributes (i.e., a trade-off between benefits) of current business operations, as well as discover opportunities for business transformation in the token and creation economy.
Author: Dr. Teck Ming (Terence) Tan
Teck Ming Tan, (teckming.tan@oulu.fi) holds D.Sc. (Marketing) from the University of Oulu, Oulu Business School (AACSB), Finland. He is an Assistant Professor at the Oulu Business School. His research interests include brand equity, self-congruence, construal-level theory, brand betrayal, and blockchain. He is also the city representative of the International Token Standardization Association (ITSA) based in Berlin, Germany and a member of the Blockchain Forum Finland. He is a blockchain consultant and he has been invited as a speaker at various international seminars related to the blockchain-based approach to marketing in the sharing economy. His paper has been published in the Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Electronic Commerce Research, NA–Advances in Consumer Research, and others.
