RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Bitcoin and the Academy
JF The Journal of Investing
FD Institutional Investor Journals
SP joi.2023.1.260
DO 10.3905/joi.2023.1.260
A1 Korok Ray
YR 2023
UL https://pm-research.com/content/early/2023/03/07/joi.2023.1.260.abstract
AB Bitcoin emerged from an anonymous creator who brought together several different academic disciplines with history in academic research, such as economics, computer science, and mathematics. The genius of Bitcoin was combining these disciplines into a single economic system. Part of the reason the academy has resisted Bitcoin adoption is that it is unsuited to this kind of interdisciplinary innovation. Economists and computer scientists do not understand one another’s disciplines deeply enough to create something like Bitcoin. For future radical innovations, the academy must reorganize around interdisciplinary innovation by breaking down disciplinary barriers to allow mixing in novel ways.