Prof. Dr. rer. pol. habil. Klaus Fichter heads the research and teaching area of Innovation Management and Sustainability. In the Department of Economics and Law, he is responsible for the study programme "Sustainable Innovation, Digitalisation, and Entrepreneurship" and at the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L) he is head of the part-time Master's programme in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship.

The innovative study module "Sustainable Venturing", which was developed largely by Klaus Fichter, received the Hans Sauer Prize in the competition for "Promotion of Environmental Innovations". The EU Erasmus project "ScaleUp4Sustainability", which he heads, was awarded the European Enterprise Promotion Award by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection as the German winner in 2022.

Klaus Fichter is a founding member of the Oldenburg Center for Sustainability Economics and Management (CENTOS), the centre for economic sustainability research at the University of Oldenburg. He is also a mentor for founders at the University of Oldenburg's Start-up and Innovation Centre. In addition, he is responsible for co-operation, transfer and innovation at the Centre for Lifelong Learning (C3L), a scientific centre at the University of Oldenburg.

Professor Fichter is a member of the Presidential Board of the FGF Research Network for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, the largest network of start-up and innovation researchers in the German-speaking world. In 2015, he also founded the FGF working group "Sustainable Entrepreneurship" and headed it until 2022. He is also co-chair of the "Innovation for Sustainability, Circularity and GreenTech" track at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) conference.

Klaus Fichter is scientific director of the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability, a non-profit organisation.

His research focuses on concepts, instruments and support systems for sustainable entrepreneurship, processes and diffusion paths of sustainability innovations, green start-ups, and methods and metrics for impact measurement. Prof. Fichter has published over 200 relevant specialist publications, many of them in high-ranking journals such as the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Small Business Economics, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.