Sarah Isabelle Manthey

Sarah Manthey is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Institute for Entrepreneurship, Technology Management and Innovation (EnTechnon). She studied the interdisciplinary Bachelor and Master of Integrative Social Science with a focus on economics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, of which she studied one semester at the Universidad del Pacifico in Santago de Chile. Building on her activities alongside her studies, she first worked in sales at a spin-off of DFKI after graduation, until she finally moved to EnTechnon in 2019. In addition to EnTechnon, she worked as a business development manager at Neohelden GmbH until May 2021. Since August she collaborated with Prof. Henrik Berglund as a Visiting Researcher at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

Research Focus

Technology Application Selection (TAS)
Technology Push Projects
Technology Entrepreneurship
Technology Management
Founding Impulses of Startups

Projects

ARRTI: Academy for responsible Research, Teaching and Innovation: Project Responsible Innovation (01/11 - 12/21; 08/23 - today) (https://www.arrti.kit.edu/)
Service Design Thinking (SDT); Program Management (01/22 - 07/23) (https://sdtkarlsruhe.de/)
Industry project: Marketing & Communication (2020)

Teaching

Student Innovation Lab (SIL) (since WS 2021/22)
Startup Experience (SS 2022 - SS 2023)
Online Academy: Introduction to Entrepreneurship (2023)
Impact Workshop: SIL, Startup X (SS 2023)
Teamproject (WS 2020/21; SS 2021; SS 23)
Hector School Entrepreneurship Unit (2020/ 2021/ 2022)
Joint Entrepreneurship School (SS 2022)
KHYS Workshop: From Research to Startup (SS 2022)
IECO: Summerschool (WS 2021/22)
Innovative Project (WS 2021/22)
Entrepreneurship Research (SS 2021)
Design Thinking (WS 2020/21; SS 2021)
Lecture Entrepreneurship (SS 2020 - SS 2021)
Coaching 15+ Bachelor and Master students in their thesis projects (since WS 2020/21)

Scholarships

KIT Research Travel Grant for an international research stay (2023)
KIT Networking Grant for an international research stay (2022)

Publications

Manthey, S. I. (2023). Improving Understanding of new or Emerging Technologies – Development of a Technology Characterization Canvas. Procedia CIRP, 119, 903–912. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2023.02.169

Finner, A.-S.; Manthey, S. (2023). How to facilitate technology push innovation strategy in a university context – towards an action-based startup experience. Procedia CIRP, 119, 127–133. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2023.02.129

Manthey, S. I.; Herr, H. (2022, November 29). Untangling the fuzziness of evaluation criteria for application identification - the technology-based perspective. ISPIM Connects Athens Conference - "The Role of innovation: Past, Present, Future" (2022), Athen, Griechenland, 28.–30. November 2022.

Manthey, S.; Eckerle, C.; Finner, A.-S.; Terzidis, O. (2022, September 23). Design and Testing of a systematic technology application selection process – losing the awe. 25. G-Forum Jahreskonferenz (2022), Dresden, Deutschland, 22.–23. September 2022.

Manthey, S. I.; Eckerle, C.; Kleinn, A.; Terzidis, O. (2022, September 22). Fuzzy Front End of Technology Push Innovation Processes – Revising the status quo. 25. G-Forum Jahreskonferenz (2022), Dresden, Deutschland, 22.–23. September 2022.

Manthey, S. I.; Eckerle, C.; Terzidis, O. (2022). Tackling the critical hurdles – revising technology-based ideation processes. Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Hosted by Neapolis University, Pafos, Cyprus, 15–16 September 2022. Ed.: P. Sklias, 327–335, Academic Conferences and Publishing International (ACPI). doi:10.34190/ecie.17.1.397

Eckerle, C.; Manthey, S.; Terzidis, O. (2022). The Entrepreneurial Perspective in Impact Investing Research – A Research Agenda. Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Hosted by Neapolis University, Pafos, Cyprus, 15–16 September 2022. Ed.: P. Sklias, 189–196, Academic Conferences International (ACI). doi:10.34190/ecie.17.1.389

Eckerle, C.; Manthey, S.; Terzidis, O. (2022). An Empirical Investigation of Impact Investment Categories for Early-Stage Venture Valuation – Global Versus Local Perspectives. 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (2022), Seattle, WA, USA, 5.–9. August 2022.

Eckerle, C.; Manthey, S.; Terzidis, O. (2022). How to Valuate Impact Startups – Towards a Taxonomy. 17th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, 1st - 3rd June 2022, St. Petersburg, FL, USA.

Manthey, S. I.; Terzidis, O.; Tittel, A. (2022). Technology Application Selection – the TAS Framework : Finding promising applications for new and emerging technologies. Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). doi:10.5445/IR/1000142279

Does, E.; Eckerle, C.; Kühler, M.; Terzidis, O.; Manthey, S. I. (2021, November 4). Responsible Innovation in University Entrepreneurship Education: Towards an Integrative Teaching Framework. 47th Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education (2021), Online, 3.–7. November 2021.

Manthey, S. I. (2020, Oktober 1). How to support entrepreneurs in searching for sustainable business models – A systematic review of educational settings. 24th G-Forum Jahreskonferenz (2020), Online, 28. September–2. Oktober 2020.