Course Content
Research Projects in the following areas:
Real Estate, especially:
- Urban planning, town planning, placemaking (e.g., challenges of an ageing society).
- Smart cities and ESG factors (e.g., smart transportation systems and social inclusion).
- Property management and property investment (e.g., proptech startups, smart contract to facilitate property investment).
Finance and Accounting, especially:
- Applied financial econometrics (e.g., AI techniques to develop predictive models for financial markets).
- Blockchain and cryptocurrency analysis (e.g., behaviour of blockchain-based markets and trading strategies).
- Green bonds (fixed-income security) (e.g., technology enabling green bond structures and environmental impacts).
- Carbon accounting and management (e.g., new carbon accounting methodologies).
Entrepreneurship and innovation, especially:
- Social entrepreneurship (e.g., AI and social innovation, ethical considerations).
- Digital startups (e.g., “gain-of-function,” AGI alignment and safety).
- Disruption and innovation (e.g., new technologies and business models).
- New product development (e.g., IoT technologies, blockchain-based supply chain management).
- Supply chain management (SCM) (e.g., cybersecurity risks, innovation in SCM).
Business analytics, especially:
- Decision support (e.g., new visualization methods to support decision-making processes).
- Big data analytics (e.g., flood mitigation and monitoring techniques).
- Predictive analytics (e.g., predictive models for marketing).
