Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship

---

Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship

Type	Interdisciplinary Educational Institution
Established	1999
Chairman	Hans Wigsell
Director	Rasmus Rahm
Students	800
Location	Stockholm , Sweden
Alumni	15000
Affiliations	Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) Karolinska Institutet (KI) University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack) Stockholm university (SU)
Website	www.sses.se

The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES) is a school providing interdisciplinary entrepreneurship education for students and alumni of 5 of Stockholm’s universities: the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Karolinska Institutet (KI), the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack), and Stockholm University (SU).

SSES activities are divided into three main areas: academic education, skills training, startup pre-incubation and business acceleration.

The SSES provides courses of ECTS accredited academic courses at the MSc and PhD level, offering approximately 20 courses annually, examining around 800 students. The academic portfolio includes all steps in the entrepreneurial process from ideation and business model innovation to social entrepreneurship, negotiations and design thinking.

History

SSES was founded in 1999, through the generous support of the Erling Persson Family Foundation. Since its inception, more than 15.000 students have participated in the programs offered by SSES.

Throughout its history SSES has offered numerous events in Stockholm, such as Start-up Day and Good Morning, gathering entrepreneurs and researchers to discuss ideas of medicine, technology, economics, design, and the humanities.                                                  

Campus and Facilities

At the member universities, SSES is represented by a number of Competence Centres, each one led by a Centre Director.

Unit for Bioentrepreneurship at Karolinska Institute

Business Development and Entrepreneurship Division at the Royal Institute of Technology

Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Creation at Stockholm School of Economics

Stockholm Business School at Stockholm University

Organization and Governance

SSES consists of a core administrative team, faculty members and professors as well as a large global network of experts and advisors from a wide array of academic disciplines. At the five member universities, SSES is represented by a number of Competence Centres, each one led by a Centre Director.

Association Members

Rasmus Rahm, Executive Director

Stefan Persson (magnate), Executive Chairman of H&M, appointed by the Erling-Persson Family Foundation

Hans Wigsell, Chairman of the Board, Professor and former Rector at Karolinska Institute

Maria Lantz, Rector at Konstfack

Ole Petter Ottersen, Rector at Karolinska Institute

Sigbritt Karlsson, Professor and Rector at the Royal Institute of Technology

Lars Strannegård, Professor and Rector at Stockholm School of Economics

Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Professor and Rector at Stockholm University

Board

Hans Wigsell, Chairman of the Board, Professor and former Rector at Karolinska Institute

Anna Omstedt-Lindgren, Founding Partner, MedUniverse

Bengt Lindberg, Professor and Dean of the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Royal Institute of Technology

Ulrika Mörth, Professor and Head of Department of Political Science at Stockholm University

Eddie Weitzberg, Professor and Head of Department at Karolinska Institute

Eugen Steiner, PhD, Partner, HealthCap

Pär Åhlström, Professor and Head of Department at Stockholm School of Economics

Centre Directors

Carl Johan Sundberg, Professor and Centre Director at Karolinska Institute

Sarah Jack, Professor and Centre Director at Stockholm School of Economics

Martin Avila, Professor and Centre Director at Konstfack

Jessica Lindbergh, Centre Director at Stockholm University

Terrence Brown, Associate Professor, Former Dean of SSES and Centre Director at the Royal Institute of Technology

Previous Executive Directors

Niclas Adler (1998–2000)

Sven Hamrefors (2000)

Per-Olof Berg (2000-2005)

Carl-Johan Sundberg (2005-2006)

Nicholas Kaye (2006-2016)

Rasmus Rahm (2016-)

Academics

The SSES portfolio consists of ECTS accredited academic courses at the MSc and PhD level, offering approximately 20 courses annually, examining around 800 students. Throughout its history, SSES has offered approximately 200 academic course offerings and 37 unique courses. The current academic portfolio includes all steps in the entrepreneurial process from ideation and business model innovation to social entrepreneurship, negotiations and Design Thinking.                                                                                                           

Incubation and Acceleration

SSES offers students and alumni of the member universities the ability to validate, incubate and accelerate their early-stage ideas housing approximately 150 entrepreneurs annually.

Fellowship

Founded in 2015, the SSES pre-incubator, the Fellowship, houses students to develop their ideas together with a team of advisors and a personal mentor for a 12-week program. SSES incubates approximately 120 individuals per year.

Affinity

Founded in 2017, The Affinity Program is a startup accelerator. SSES accelerates approximately 10 companies per year.

Additionally, SSES launched two other incubators, SSE Business Lab, founded in 2001 for the Stockholm School of Economics and Transit, founded in 2004, for Konstfack in order to support startups within the creative and cultural industries.

Achievements

Since 1999, SSES has offered a total of 270 academic courses and 300 extracurricular activities with over 15.000 student graduations. Approximately 40% of SSES graduates found companies and around 1.500 companies worldwide are operated by alumni.

In 2013, SSES was the first European organization to be recognised for its “Exceptional Achievements in Entrepreneurship Education Across Disciplines” by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. 

At the GCEC 2018 conference in Chicago SSES was recognised with an award for “Outstanding Contributions to Venture Creation”.              

Notable Faculty

Ronald Jones, PhD, artist, critic and educator.

Carl Johan Sundberg, Professor and Centre Director at Karolinska Institute

Sarah Jack, Professor and Centre Director at Stockholm School of Economics

Martin Avila, Professor and Centre Director at Konstfack

Jessica Lindbergh, Centre Director at Stockholm University

Terrence Brown, Associate Professor, Former Dean of SSES and Centre Director at the Royal Institute of Technology

Extra-curricular activities

SSES offers a number of extracurricular activities: workshops, breakfast talks and bootcamps, approximately 35 activities annually for around 700 participants on topics such as insight mapping, designing your life, conscious communication, the future of life and smart cities.

International Collaborations                                                                                                      

In total, SSES has offered more than 25 international bootcamps. The bootcamps usually consists of collaborations including a 2014 Bootcamp on The Future of Mobility in Gridlocked Cities, done in collaboration with Parsons School of Design and Ford in New York City, a 2011 Bootcamp on The Future of Death, done in collaboration with National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad in India, and a 2016 Bootcamp on Social Innovation, done in collaboration with the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Iceland.

Academic Partners

SSES operates on a global basis with a number of academic partners. These include Aalto University, Cornell University, d.school (Stanford University), Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, National Institute of Design, Vijayawada, National University of Singapore, Sydney School of Entrepreneurship, Paris-est d.school, San Diego State University, Stellenbosch University, University College London, University of California, Berkeley, University of Texas at Austin and Iceland University of the Arts.

External links

Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship website

Stockholm School of Economics website

Royal Institute of Technology website

Stockholm University website

University College of Arts, Crafts and Design website 

Karolinska Institute website

References

http://familjenerlingperssonsstiftelse.se/en/

https://sse.edu.au/

http://www.globalentrepreneurshipconsortium.org/home/

http://www.startupday.se/

http://www.goodmorning.se/

Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship

This article "Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.

---