Christoph Hinske

Core question: What does it mean to be better off in business ecosystems, and how can we tell in decision terms?

Focus

• Agreement structures behind coordination quality, cost, and risk in SME ecosystems

• Turning field evidence into decision-grade models

Work pattern

• Qualitative fieldwork and agreement mapping

• System dynamics modeling and testable hypotheses

Boundary

• Independent academic research

• No advisory services

Applied research and tool development at the intersection of ecosystems, agreements, and measurable coordination capacity.

Focus

• Making coordination reality discussable and measurable

• Translating practice into comparable evidence

Outputs

• Research instruments and teaching-ready tools

• Comparative case insights across SMEs

Boundary

• Research-first, not consulting-first

• Non-attributable examples only

Co-developing and applying systemic approaches for circular economy implementation with SMEs and regional partners.

Focus

• Implementation realism in SMEs

• Cross-actor coordination in regional transition work

Outputs

• Field-tested maturity logic and learning loops

• Practical decision support formats

Boundary

• Focus on adoption and evidence, not slogans

Editorial and coordination role in an international series on resource systems and transition capabilities.

Focus

• Building coherent contributions across authors

• Translating research into usable structure

Outputs

• Edited volumes, author guidance, editorial process design

Boundary

• Quality, rigor, and clarity over volume

Hands-on work on strategy, facilitation, and tool building across sectors.

What I did

• Worked with leadership teams on ecosystem strategy

• Built data driven tools that support implementation decisions

• Bridged corporate, civil, and academic worlds

What that gave me

• A bias for practical evidence

• A feel for cross-sector coordination realities

Designed and built an integrated learning and research environment.

Focus

• Build an operational learning environment, not a program

• Make outcomes visible and comparable

Outputs

• Structure, formats, partner routines

Senior Lecturer (Hoofddocent), Saxion (Aug 2018 to Feb 2023)

Teaching and applied research at the intersection of business strategy and systems thinking.

Focus

• Curriculum, supervision, applied research

• Connecting education to partner ecosystems

Teaching and applied research at the intersection of business strategy and systems thinking.

Focus

• Courses on Leadership and Systems Thinking

• Connecting education to partner ecosystems

Led leadership learning programs and capacity building in international contexts.

Focus

• Leadership learning across cultures

• Capacity building for cross-sector leaders

• Hinske. C., Ritchie-Dunham, J., Lehmann, H. (Eds.) (forthcoming), Resource use for Human Flourishing (FactorX 6th ed.). Taylor & Francis

• Hinske, C., & Olde Bijvank-Brekveld, P. (in press). Ecosystem-wide flourishing in practice: Applying the Global Flourishing Goals to transform business and education. In M. Pirson, A. Yemiscigil Jensen, & M. T. Lee (Eds.), Transforming business and education for flourishing. Routledge.

• Lehmann, H., Hinske, C., de Margerie, V., & Nikolova, A. S. (Eds.). (2023). The impossibilities of the circular economy: Separating aspirations from reality. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003244196

• Gonser, M., & Hinske, C. (2023). Circular economy, sustainability, and functional differentiation: An impossibility and its strategic-methodological implications. In H. Lehmann, C. Hinske, V. de Margerie, & A. S. Nikolova (Eds.), The impossibilities of the circular economy: Separating aspirations from reality (pp. 61–71). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003244196-8

• Metcalf, M., & Hinske, C. (2023). Circular economy leadership: Leadership mindsets and behaviours – the unseen impossibility. In H. Lehmann, C. Hinske, V. de Margerie, & A. S. Nikolova (Eds.), The impossibilities of the circular economy: Separating aspirations from reality (pp. 103–113). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003244196-12

• Mustafa, M. A., & Hinske, C. (2022). Financing WEF nexus projects: Perspectives from interdisciplinary and multidimensional research challenges. In T. Mabhaudhi, A. Senzanje, A. Modi, G. Jewitt, & F. Massawe (Eds.), Water-energy-food nexus narratives and resource securities (pp. 223–234). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91223-5.00001-0

• Anuwa-Amarh, E., Hinske, C., Bamfo-Debrah, N. K., Sefa, D., Amarh, S., & Nassam, S. (2020). The Kwawu resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems: A complex adaptive systems approach to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. In H. Lehmann (Ed.), Sustainable development and resource productivity: The nexus approaches (pp. 317–328). Routledge.

• Academie voor Haptonomie (2020 to 2021)

• Institute for Strategic Clarity, MPhil Ecosynnomics (2014 to 2017)

• FH Eberswalde, MSc Global Change Management (2006 to 2009)

• FH Eberswalde, BSc International Forest Ecosystem Management (2002 to 2005)