Stephan Hankammer is an economist and sustainability scholar whose work focuses on regenerative economics, collaborative value creation, sustainable entrepreneurship, and organizational design in a post-growth economy. He explores how companies and organizations can be shaped to remain viable in the face of ecological crises and social transformation. His work combines academic analysis with concrete transformation processes, particularly in projects on regenerative transformation, impact-oriented start-ups, and the incubation of business models geared toward the common good.
Since March 2026, he has been an Honorary Professor for the Field of Regenerative Economics at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences. Before that, from 2022 to 2026, he was Full Professor of General Business Administration with a focus on Sustainable Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and from 2018 to 2022 Junior Professor (with tenure track). During this time, he also served, among other roles, as Dean and Vice Dean of the Department of Business, as a member of the Senate, and as Program Director of the Bachelor’s degree program in Sustainable Management.
He earned his doctorate in 2018 at RWTH Aachen in the field of technology and innovation management (Dr. rer. pol., summa cum laude), with a dissertation on collaborative and co-creative forms of value creation from a sustainability perspective. For this work, he received the Friedrich Wilhelm Prize and the RWTH Aachen Prize for Interdisciplinarity. Since 2018, he has been an affiliated researcher at the RWTH Aachen Institute of Technology and Innovation Management (TIM), and since 2022 Scientific Managing Director of the REGWI Institute for Regenerative Economics.
