Veronika Fetzer, Prof. Dr. (Germany)
Vice President for Third Mission, Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT)
Professor of Economy of Scale, Campus Oberschneiding, DIT
Co-Head, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Centre of Applied Research (ZAF), DIT
Managing Director, ITC Innovations Technologie Campus GmbH, Deggendorf
Prof. Dr. Veronika Fetzer is a business economist, professor and higher-education leader specialising in entrepreneurship, business growth and the scaling of innovative ventures. Since April 2024 she has been Vice President for Third Mission at the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (DIT), where her work strengthens the links between academia, industry and society, helps start-ups develop scalable business models and supports their access to international markets. She co-heads DIT's Centre for Entrepreneurship and its Centre of Applied Research (ZAF).
Fetzer began her career as a trained bank clerk before studying Business Administration and earning a Master's degree in Management, Leadership and Finance at the University of Regensburg, where she also completed her doctorate in economics (Dr. rer. pol.).
Before joining DIT, she held leadership positions in start-up support at TechBase Regensburg and the Digitale Gründerinitiative Oberpfalz (DGO). In 2022 she was appointed to the professorship "Economy of Scale" at the Bavarian Innovation and Transformation Center (BITZ) in Oberschneiding — today Campus Oberschneiding — within DIT's Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences and Industrial Engineering. In January 2024 she also became Managing Director of ITC Innovations Technologie Campus GmbH in Deggendorf.