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			Appendix C: Approach used in labour and industry analyses

	A	Industry analysis approach
	B	Labour analysis approach

A	Industry analysis approach

The dataset was compiled through a progressive online scan for Australian blockchain activities 
and companies between July and August 2018. 

Blockchain activity is defined as organisational actions aimed toward implementing or
developing blockchain innovation, to yield blockchain products. 

Blockchain activity was classified as Australian if involved companies were founded and/or 
headquartered in the country. 

Data sources include Crunchbase, LinkedIn, media articles and company websites.

From this scan, activity details were extracted, organised and consolidated. 

The following data was collected on blockchain companies: state/territory, firm size, blockchain 
activity, industry and starting year. 

Blockchain activity types were divided into three categories: 

A	focused (single application products of the technology in a specific industry for a specific
	problem), 

B	farsighted (application products that could provide a solution to numerous problems in
	a single industry or across industries) or 

C	facilitative (providing finance, crypto-exchange, consulting or technical services for
	blockchain-related productisation).

B	Labour analysis approach

Analysis of the demand for blockchain labour in Australia was based on the data from Burning 
Glass Technologies (BGT).181 

BGT collects real-time online job postings from company websites and major job boards, 
removes duplicate advertisements and parses the advertisements into a systematic and 
searchable form. 

The data from BGT has been broadly applied in Australia and internationally for research into
labour demand patterns and projections.182

In this report, data on blockchain jobs were obtained by filtering the BGT Labour Insight 
database. 

To identify technical skills for blockchain labour, our searching algorithm used 'blockchain' and 
'cryptocurrency', as well as various skill categories, as search keywords. 

Enterprise skills are defined as transferrable skills that can be applied in a range of
professions and industries, and are not unique to specific technical domains or jobs.

It needs to be acknowledged that BGT takes all efforts to remove duplicate job listings from their 
database, as well as to provide accurate coding for job classifications. 

However, the possibility that duplicate online job listings and/or miscoded data are present in the 
database cannot be completely excluded. 

BGT also provides no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the data; however, the 
dataset covers all available online sources (open for crawling).
	





Blockchain" applications are appearing in many industries 

This may be the reason that in May 2018 the European Commission [EC] has announced a new 
Challenge for 2019 called "Blockchains for Social Good" 

The Prize for this challenge is 5 winners of Euro 1,000,000 each

As at 04 Jan 2019 1,000,000 Euros are worth Au$ 1,625,233.92

The timetable to submit an application is

	1	16 May 2018 - contest opens
	2	02 Apr 2019 - deadline for registration of interest [NOT MANDATORY]
	3 	03 Sep 2019 - deadline to submit applications

On 09 Apr 2019 the CSIRO-Data61/Australian Computer Society [ACS] Published
"Blockchain 2030 - A Look at the Future of Blockcgain in Australia" 

				INDEX OF CONTENTS

		CONTENTS									PAGE		

A	Executive summary									 4

B	Introduction: Blockchain beyond Bitcoin	 				 8
	
C	Overview of blockchain 								12
	C1	Why now? The evolution of social and economic trust	15
	C2	Regulating blockchains 							16

D	Current profile of Australian blockchain industry and skills 	17
	D1	Blockchain activity in Australia 						18
	D2	Industry profile of blockchain activity					19
	D3	The workforce of blockchain professionals			21

E	Future trends shaping blockchain in Australia 				24
	E1	Technological and environmental trends 				25
	E2	Economic trends 									30
	E3	Geopolitical trends 								32
	E4	Social trends 										34

F	Future scenarios for blockchain application 				37
	F1	Axes of critical impact and uncertainty 				39
	F2	Plausible blockchain adoption scenarios 				41
		
G	Strategic implications and actions 						50
	G1	Australia's competitive advantage 					51
	G2	The transition period 								53

H	Conclusion 											55

Aa	Appendix A:
	Strategic foresight methodology 						58

Ab	Appendix B:
	Regulatory measures for blockchain 						60

Ac	Appendix C:
	Approach used in labour and industry analyses 			62

Ad	Appendix D:
	High-profile use cases of blockchain in Australia 			63

Rb4	References - 185 										64
 


	A	Index "Blockchain 2030" Committee Meetings - Section Reviews

	H	2018 EC-Blockchains for Social Good [BSG] H2020

		a	Rules of Contest - On-line

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