Dr. Erik G. Hansen
HOD
Quality design
Bavarian Nordic
Denmark
Biography
Erik G. Hansen is Full Professor and Head of the Institute for Integrated Quality Design (IQD) at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz, Austria. Additionally he is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM), Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. ). Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield University, UK. He gained his doctoral degree at Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany.
Research Interest
His research focuses on sustainability-oriented innovation management at the level of products, product-service systems and business models as well as management systems in support of these processes. He is a member of the editorial board of Business Strategy and the Environment and has published in leading journals including International Journal of Innovation Management, Journal of Business Ethics and Journal of Cleaner Production. Erik teaches at the intersection of Sustainability, Innovation and Quality Design on Master and Bachelor levels (JKU) and in the MBA Sustainability Management programme (Leuphana U.
