In recent years, the concept of sustainability has gained significant traction across various industries. As the world grapples with the challenges of climate change and resource depletion, innovative technologies are being explored to contribute to a more sustainable future. One such technology...

The development of Blockchains technologies, including smart contracts and cryptographic tokens, have a potential to change the competition between platforms. In this presentation, based on a couple of projects, I discuss how utility tokens can help new platforms enter the market, and how...

The proliferation of copycats poses a severe threat to brand manufacturers in the e-commerce era. Product innovation is a key strategy for brand manufacturers to enhance their market competitiveness and effectively combat copycats, which also may be beneficial or harmful to the environment. Yet,...

This study examines the adoption and implications of Blockchain Technology (BT) in the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on its potential to influence authoritarian tendencies and civil activism. The analysis utilises a wide array of sources and employs an interdisciplinary approach,...

The ever-progressing digitalization of the economy and society is unlocking new opportunities for organizations engaging in services. We are in the middle of a transformation of the service sector that can be likened to the advent of mass production in the 1940s. Based on recent advances and...

The pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC) is highly complex and challenging. This paper first elaborates on the key challenges in current PSC operations and management. Then, it proposes a blockchain-based framework to improve PSC traceability and visibility and overcome the problems of...

In recent years, pharmaceutical drug traceability systems have been developed as critical tools for improving the digital supply chain's transparency and visibility. Blockchain-based drug traceability proposes a promising solution to create a distributed shared data platform for an irreversible,...