%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2021 %T A Cross-Pollination of Ideas about Distributed Ledger Technological Innovation through a Multidisciplinary and Multisectoral lens: Insights from the Blockchain Technology Symposium ’21 %A Victoria L. Lemieux %A Atefeh Mashatan %A Rei Safavi-Naini %A Jeremy Clark %K blockchain %K decentralization %K decentralized finance %K decentralized health %K decentralized identity %K decentralized supply chains %K distributed ledgers %K innovation %K technology adoption %K technology management %X Blockchain Technology Symposium 2021 (BTS'21) is a forum where academic researchers, industry professionals, and decision makers came together to present recent advancements, discuss adoption barriers, tackle common challenges, and explore future roadmaps surrounding blockchain and its related technologies such as consensus algorithms, smart contracts, cryptocurrencies, and distributed ledger technologies generally. As a follow-up to BTS'18 and BTS'20, which were hosted by Ryerson University and The Fields Institute, and by popular demand, BTS 2021 gathered a diverse audience from academia, industry, and policy makers to engage in a dialogue around crucial topics in the adoption of blockchain technology, with the aim of cross-fertilizing ideas from these communities to address the challenges and seize the opportunities brought forward by this promising technology. BTS'21 featured multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral talks and presentations on four major themes: (1) decentralized finance (DeFi), (2) decentralized identity, (3) decentralized health and (4) decentralized supply chain management. This article provides reflections on some of the key insights found in the BTS’21 presentations. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 11 %P 58-66 %8 06/2021 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1445 %N 6 %1 University of British Columbia Dr. Victoria Lemieux is an Associate Professor of Archival Science at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information and Founder and Co-Lead of Blockchain@UBC, a multidisciplinary blockchain research and education cluster at UBC. %2 Ryerson University Dr. Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan is an Associate Professor of Professor of Information Technology Management and the founder and director of the Cybersecurity Research Lab (CRL) at Ryerson University. She holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Quality of Security Framework for Internet-of-Things (IoT). %3 University of Calgary Dr. Rei Safavi-Naini is the NSERC/Telus Industrial Research Chair and Alberta Innovates Strategic Chair in Information Security. She is a co-founder of the Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance at the University of Calgary and served as its Director until January 2019. Her research interests are cryptography and information security. %4 Concordia University Dr. Jeremy Clark is an Associate Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, where he holds the NSERC/Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton/Catallaxy Industrial Research Chair in Blockchain Technologies. %& 58 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1445 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2017 %T Anticipating the Economic Benefits of Blockchain %A Melanie Swan %K blockchain %K cryptocurrencies %K cryptoeconomics %K cybersecurity %K digital asset registries %K digital goods %K distributed ledgers %K economics %K eWallet %K lightning network %K long tail markets %K payment channels %K programmable money %K smart assets %K smart contracts %K streaming money %X In this general overview article intended for non-experts, I define blockchain technology and some of the key concepts, and then I elaborate four specific applications that highlight the potential economic benefits of digital ledgers. These applications are digital asset registries, blockchains as leapfrog technology for global financial inclusion, long-tail personalized economic services, and net settlement payment channels. I also highlight key challenges that offset the potential economic benefits of blockchain distributed ledgers, while arguing that the benefits would outweigh the potential risks. The overarching theme is that an increasing amount of everyday operations involving money, assets, and documents could start to be conducted via blockchain-based distributed network ledgers with cryptographic security, and at more granular levels of detail. One economic implication of widespread blockchain adoption is that the institutional structure of society could shift to one that is computationally-based and thus has a diminished need for human-operated brick-and-mortar institutions. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 7 %P 6-13 %8 10/2017 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1102 %N 10 %1 Purdue University Melanie Swan is a technology theorist in the Philosophy Department at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. She is the author of the best-selling book Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy (2015), which has been translated into six languages. She is the founder of several startups including the Institute for Blockchain Studies, DIYgenomics, GroupPurchase, and the MS Futures Group. Ms. Swan's educational background includes an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Contemporary Continental Philosophy from Kingston University London and Université Paris 8, and a BA in French and Economics from Georgetown University. She is a faculty member at Singularity University and the University of the Commons, an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and an invited contributor to the Edge's Annual Essay Question. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1109