Sarah Manthey is a research assistant and PhD student at the Institute for Entrepreneurship, Technology Management and Innovation (EnTechnon). She studied the interdisciplinary Bachelor and Master 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.

Until 12/21, Ms. Manthey was primarily responsible for project work around ARRTI (Academical Responsible Research, Teaching and Innovation) and the conception and implementation of seminars and workshops. Since 01/22, she has been active in the Sugar Design Thinking project and additionally coordinates the Student Innovation Lab from an entrepreneurial side together with Ms. Eckerle. In her research, Ms. Manthey focuses on the further development of the TAS (Technology Application Selection) Framework developed at KIT.