Economics Principles for Cyber & Tech

7-hour Interactive Workshop

Understand the nature of markets and their operation for cyber and tech
Evaluate the operation of those markets for commercial value and for social value
Learn techniques to manage and benefit from, and improve, market operation.

This course introduces the core economic forces shaping cyberspace and emerging technologies. Participants explore how digital markets create and distribute value, why market power and concentration arise in platform economies, and how incentives, externalities and information asymmetries affect cybersecurity, AI and other innovations. The program equips leaders with an economic lens for understanding cyber risk, technology‑driven productivity change, and the logic behind regulatory and strategic interventions in digital sectors. It provides understanding of markets and engineering, information and bio-technologies.

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KEY THEMES

Economics of cyber and digital markets
Platform power, concentration and competition
Pricing, incentives and externalities in cybersecurity
Valuing data, AI and intangible assets
Market failures and the case for intervention
Strategic use of economic tools for tech governance
Turning economic insights into policy and business strategy

URGENCY AND RELEVANCE

Consumer and business demand for new technologies is evolving faster than traditional market analysis can keep up, reshaping how value is created and captured. As digital platforms, AI services and data‑driven products scale globally, market dynamics are increasingly dominated by network effects, winner‑takes‑most structures and rapid shifts in bargaining power. At the same time, governments are using trade, investment screening, industrial policy and sanctions to pursue geo‑economic advantage in key tech sectors, from semiconductors to cloud infrastructure. Leaders who lack a grounded economic lens risk misreading these forces, overestimating hype or underestimating systemic risks. A course like this is critical to help participants understand where markets work, where they fail, and how to design strategies that are commercially viable, socially credible and resilient in a contested global economy.

BLENDED LEARNING INTERNATIONAL

The program is delivered by the Social Cyber & Tech Academy, in partnership with Blended Learning International, an Australian Registered Training Organisation with more than 20 years experience in Australia and overseas.

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