The Dawn of Open Cryptoeconomic Networks - Keynote at EOS 2019, Interlaken
Channel: Marcus Dapp
Date: 2020-06-25

Keynote given at the European Outdoor Summit in Interlaken, Switzerland on September 26, 2019.

In the age of networks, boundaries between [and inside] institutions will gradually dissolve. Digitization is only accelerating this process. Business leaders need to understand and embrace the age of networks and derive the right strategies to embed their organisations in this new world, in which value generation happens in a distributed manner across networks and business models morph into mesh networks of value creation. Traditional competitive strategies based on “one-against-the-other” will lose their effectiveness in such an environment: Combinatorial innovation is faster than anything a single (or small group of) companies can achieve; combining good solutions may out perform the single-best solution; collective intelligence is better coping with complexity than hierarchical structures.

Dr. Marcus M. Dapp is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Chair for Computational Social Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Marcus is researching how the decentralized web can help create new incentive systems in peer-to-peer economic networks with a more sustainable twist - in other words a new economic system with sustainability built-in. His research interests range from cryptoeconomics and token economies to new ways of governance and self- organising decentralized autonomous organisations. Besides research (see www. futurICT2.eu), he is academic lead of the “Blockchain and Internet of Things” block course, co-runs a Digital Ethics seminar with Prof. Dirk Helbing and has his own lecture about Digital Sustainability, all at ETH Zurich.