Posts by Luke Kowalski
Students of the ‘How to be a Futurist’ Course Publish Books on Startup Success and Failure
During the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 semesters, SCET hosted the course titled ‘Future of Technology: How Innovators Critically Examine Game-Changing and Time-Wasting Technologies.‘ This special topics course equips students…
Read MoreDigital currency adoption is more closely tied to perceptions of trust and brand than to technology or ideological motivators
Luke Kowalski 1,2,3, William Green 1, Simon Lilley 4 1 University of Leicester, School of Management, United Kingdom 2 University of California at Berkeley – Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, Berkeley, CA, USA 3 Oracle Corporation,…
Read MorePivoting from Adversity to Opportunity — In the Spring 2020 Emerging Tech and Social Impact Challenge Lab
The Spring 2020 semester started innocently enough. There was an epidemic at the other end of the world, but it seemed like it would not really affect us in the…
Read MoreGuests Rock the Fall 2019 Emerging Tech and Social Impact Challenge Lab!
The last couple of blog posts highlighted student projects from the respective Challenge Labs. Instead of doing it in this post, we have this amazing video showcasing outstanding projects from last semester…
Read MoreA Blockchain Halloween in New Orleans
Karin Bauer from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and Lauren Weymouth from Ripple have apparently been brainstorming about how to incorporate blockchain-based courses into programs of other universities, and…
Read MoreIt takes a (Blockchain) Village!
Spring Reflections, Fall Futures, and Student Project Highlights Spring of 2019 was the semester of collaboration and joint ventures for our Blockchain Challenge Lab. We expanded the program to include…
Read MoreUsing Blockchain for (Social) Good! Four student ventures and use cases
Blockchain is a transformative technology capable of disrupting industries and even altering the social fabric. The recent initial coin offering scandals, plummeting cryptocurrency values, and the general wild west nature…
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