Topic's in the course:

• Business models of electronic commerce
• Principles of encryption and data transaction security
• Business-to-consumer e-commerce
• Business-to-business e-commerce
• Intra-organisational electronic commerce
• Legal & taxation issues
• Social, economic and legal issues surrounding electronic commerce
• Electronic payment systems
• Develop an electronic commerce Web site.

The assignments involved:

• Reviewing and critically discuss development issues of the main technologies of electronic commerce
• Evaluating the key features of business-to-consumer electronic commerce
• Evaluating the key features of business-to-business and intra-organisational electronic commerce
• Analyse the social, economic and legal impacts of the development and use of electronic commerce.

Topic's in the course:

• New technologies telecommunications, nanotechnology, robotics and artificial intelligence
• Technology diffusion and convergence
• Politics and Economics of innovation

The assignments involved:

• Critically evaluate innovations, contexts and environments that lead to adoption of innovative and enabling technologies
• Discussing current knowledge, and capabilities of emerging technological developments
• Evaluating potential commercial applications of emerging technological developments