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DESCRIPTION:Dongwook Chun\, a doctoral student at º£½ÇÉçÇø in the 
 Information Systems area will be presenting his thesis defense entitled:\n
 \nDigital Disruptive Technologies and Entrepreneurial Innovation\n\nFriday
 \, April 10\, 2026\, at 11:00 a.m. \n	(The defense will be conducted in hyb
 rid mode)\n\nStudent Committee Co-chairs: Prof. Taha Havakhor and Prof. An
 imesh Animesh​​​​​\n\n\nAbstract\n\nThis dissertation examines how emergin
 g digital technologies\, specifically blockchain and artificial intelligen
 ce (AI)\, reshape funding models\, organization structure\, and entreprene
 urial innovation strategy. Through two essays\, I investigate how startups
  adapt to and leverage these disruptive shifts.\n\nThe first essay focuses
  on blockchain-based financing (i.e.\, token offering or token sale)\, ana
 lyzing token offerings as an alternative to traditional venture capital (V
 C). It finds that token-backed startups exhibit lower levels of product in
 novative activity compared to their VC-backed counterparts. This decline i
 s attributed to misaligned incentive structures between token and equity f
 inancing\, as well as differences in investor profiles (e.g.\, customers v
 s. professional investors). The study also finds conditions\, such as foun
 der experience and token retention design\, that may weaken the negative e
 ffect of token offerings on product innovation.\n\nThe second essay explor
 es the organizational scale implications of AI-driven entrepreneurship\, p
 articularly how building AI product affects startup team size in GenAI era
 . After GenAI\, launching AI product is associated with smaller teams\, dr
 iven primarily by increased solo entrepreneurship. This result indicates t
 hat GenAI enables solo entrepreneurs to enter AI product markets easily. T
 he essay further examines changes in boundary conditions in this shift\, p
 roduct structures shift\, and implications for bottom-line effects in term
 s of product novelty and quality.\n\nTaken together\, this dissertation sh
 ows that disruptive digital technologies play a critical role in broadenin
 g access to capital and lowering the organizational scale required for inn
 ovation\, yet they also reshape incentive alignment\, leading to different
  innovation strategies and performance dynamics. By bridging financing and
  organizational perspectives\, it deepens our understanding of how digital
  technologies transform entrepreneurial innovation.\n
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SUMMARY:PhD Thesis Defense Presentation: Dongwook Chun
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