Dr Severin Beucker

Dr.-Ing. Severin Beucker is a guest lecturer on the part-time Master's programme in Innovation Management. He is a co-founder and senior researcher at the Borderstep Institute, Berlin. His work focuses on analysing innovation and cooperation networks in the field of sustainable technologies and future markets as well as evaluating the resource productivity and economic efficiency of new technologies.

Severin Beucker studied Technical Environmental Protection at the Technical University of Berlin. From 1999 to 2006, he worked at the Institute for Industrial Engineering and Technology Management (IAT) at the University of Stuttgart and at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) in Stuttgart. There he headed research projects and a task force for the development of research fields in nanotechnology and biotechnology. He received his doctorate from the University of Stuttgart in 2005 and works as a lecturer for the German Society for Quality .

Dr Ralph Hintemann

Ralph Hintemann is a lecturer in innovation management at the University of Oldenburg and supervises the teaching modules "Fundamentals of Innovation Management", "Consequences of Innovation and Social Responsibility" and the final module (part-time degree programme) in the part-time Master's degree programme in Innovation Management. He is a member of the Oldenburg Center for Sustainability Economics and Management (CENTOS). His research activities focus on innovation strategies, issues relating to the development of sustainable future markets and the diffusion of new products and technologies, with an emphasis on environmental innovations and information and communication technologies. Ralph Hintemann is also a senior researcher at the Borderstep Institute.
Ralph Hintemann studied mechanical engineering and economics at RWTH Aachen University, where he worked as a research assistant specialising in innovation and environmental research from 1991 to 2000. In 2000, he received his doctorate from the Institute of Economics at RWTH Aachen University. From 2001 to 2009, he worked in various technological fields at the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM ) in Berlin, most recently as Head of IT Infrastructure& Digital Office and Head of Business Excellence.

Prof Dr Karsten Hurrelmann (2013-2023)
Research associate; Managing Director of NIK, Tempro, Klima-Lo, Klima-Wa, Nachhaltig Gründen (Sustainability4all), resilience as an opportunity for sustainable corporate action

Dr Irina Tiemann (2013-2017)
Research associate; StartUp4Climate, Shift

Dr Tina Schneider (2009-2015)
Research assistant; nordwest2050
Managing Director NIK
PhD: Adaptation of companies and critical infrastructures to the consequences of climate change

Dr Mareike Seemann
External doctoral candidate
PhD: Innovation networks in young industries. Formation, morphology and corporate strategy implications using the example of the German photovoltaic industry.

Dr Linda Bergset
External doctoral candidate
PhD: Challenges in green start-up finance

Dr Maria Real Perdomo
External doctoral candidate
PhD: Sustainable Business Models based on Insect Inclusiveness

Dr Constanze Trautwein
External doctoral candidate
Doctoral area: Assessment of the potential and actual sustainability impact of start-ups