POLI3117 Web3 Entrepreneurship

The Department of Politics and Public Administration is launching a new course on Web3.0 entrepreneurship in the Fall Semester 2024/25, welcoming students from all Social Sciences disciplines. Some key features of this course:

  1. • Direct interactions with Web3.0 professionals and business leaders in guest lectures
  2. • Fully-sponsored trip to study Web3.0 ecosystems in Taipei and Seoul
  3. • Develop social innovation project with guidance from industry mentors, with feedback from a panel of seasoned impact investors

Since the course has an enrollment cap, students who are interested should answer a few questions here and submit your transcript here for consideration. The course instructors will meet with applicants individually to understand their expectations and interest in the topics this course will cover.  

Please email Prof Kwan Nok Chan kwachan@hku.hk if you have any questions.

POLI3117 Entrepreneurship in Web3.0

Created in collaboration with industry leaders, this course will guide students through the entrepreneurial landscape of Web3.0, focusing on entrepreneurship through the innovative application of cutting-edge technology. The course begins with an accessible, non-technical introduction to local and global use cases where key Web3.0 technologies—AI, Blockchain, and Virtual Reality—are being leveraged to create valuable services and products with social benefits. Students will meet industry veterans representing global corporations that use Web3.0 technology to reinvent business practices, such as Arup, Digital Domain, and the MTRC, as well as startups revolutionizing the way people publish content and co-create services digitally, such as LikerLand and ORA.

In a fully-sponsored study trip to Seoul and Taipei in the reading week, students will meet innovators, academics, and policymakers to learn how innovators in neighboring societies navigate regulatory requirements and community values to realize initiatives that are commercially viable, sustainable, and socially impactful. Students will discuss propositions for tech-powered innovation with students and faculty at Seoul National University and National Taiwan University.

For the final project, students will work with industry experts as mentors to prepare a proposal on a specific topic of Web3.0 entrepreneurship. They will present the proposals to a panel of impact investors. 

Students in this course will:

  • • Understand local and international use cases where Web3 technologies are applied to deliver social innovation;
  • • Interact with industry experts and understand the latest development in their respective fields;
  • • Meet with academics and industry players in Seoul and Taipei and visit sites of interest;
  • • Experience Web3.0 technologies first-hand, such as blockchain interactions and tokenomics; 
  • • Practice proposal writing and pitching and receive feedback from impact investors.

This course is carefully designed so that students with no prior technical knowledge can thrive and succeed. Our core vision is to prepare social science students for a future where successful entrepreneurship for social impact will require an appreciation of the operational potential of, as well as the regulatory and policy issues surrounding, Web3.0 technologies. We also welcome students from an engineering background to join, as the topics this course offers are crucial to the entrepreneurial application of technical know-how.

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