This chapter enquires into the strategic leadership of communities based on public blockchains. The authors review the emergence of cryptocurrencies, from Bitcoin to Ethereum to the current landscape known as Web3. The domain is diverse and dynamic, so they structure their analysis around five...

Modern patent systems have been described as slow, inefficient, expensive, and possibly leading to outcomes that actively harm technological progress. This chapter presents a foundation for practical solutions, addressing suggestions like prior-art bounties and outsourced examination that have...

At the core of Islamic finance ideal models, profit and loss sharing (PLS) contracts (mudaraba and musharaka) have been avoided in practice by Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) who, since their inception, suffer from a Murabaha Syndrome by relying on debt-like instruments as their main...