Students can outline the principal elements and fields of application of blockchain technology. They can describe the basics of smart contracts and outline the possibilities of implementing blockchain technology in a business.

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Blockchain is a decentralized way of managing data and the logic derived from this data. This results in new possibilities of cooperation between businesses and new business models.

• Principal elements and fields of application of blockchain technology
• Smart contracts
• Implementing blockchain in a business

• Mougayar W. (2016): The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology.Wiley
  
• Daniel Drescher (2017): Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25. Apress.
  
• Tapscott D., Tapscott A. (2016): Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World. Portfolio.

Lecture, case study analysis in groups

Term paper