Blockchain

Published: Oct. 1, 2018, 3:14 p.m.

Last week, the World Economic Forum published a report identifying more than 65 ways blockchain can be applied to the world’s most-pressing environmental challenges and calling for new global platforms to incubate ‘responsible blockchain ecosystems’ rather than just individual applications or companies. This week The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, has published the results of a survey on the adoption of blockchain in the pharmaceutical and life science industries. According to the survey, 60 percent of pharmaceutical and life science professionals are either using or experimenting with blockchain today, compared to 22 percent when asked in 2017 Ahead of our major blockchain focus in the October issue of Digitalisation World, we contacted a range of IT vendors and consultants to ask them how they saw blockchain developing outside of its cryptocurrency and gaming sweetspots. The response was huge and the following snapshots give some indication as to just how all-pervasive blockchain could become in the business world in the near future. Presented by Phil Alsop, Editor of Digitalisation World.