Hannes Rothe
Professor at innovate 255
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolHannes Rothe is a professor and chair of Information Systems and Sustainable Supply Chain Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, combining academic rigor with hands-on venture building across the Rhine-Ruhr innovation ecosystem. He researches sustainability in digital innovation, digital ecosystems, and knowledge organization, with publications in top journals and multiple paper awards including the Claudio Ciborra Award for innovation. As head of the Co-Creation Lab "Place Beyond Bytes" and co-founder of the Digital Entrepreneurship Hub, he scouts, incubates and mentors AI and health‑tech ventures while teaching entrepreneurship across European partner institutions. His background spans academic leadership, curriculum design for interdisciplinary entrepreneurship education, and early-career web development — a blend that helps translate research insights into scalable, impact-oriented ventures. Away from academia he’s also a father of two, which he cites as a driver of his long-term, practical commitment to sustainable innovation.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. pol., Management Information Systems, summa cum laude, Dr. rer. pol., Management Information Systems, summa cum laude at Freie Universität BerlinMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Business Administration and Management, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Business Administration and Management at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
English, Russian
Github Skills (4)
django-blog3
django2
django-project2
python1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hannesrothe/bi_2017
May 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
hannesrothe/Scanalytics
Jun 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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