Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (Sweden)
The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES) is a joint initiative by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), Karolinska Institute (KI) and the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack), the leading universities in Technology, Economics, Medicine and Design in Stockholm.
The goal of SSES is to promote the Stockholm Region as one of the leading innovative and entrepreneurial hot-spots in the world.
The overall purpose of SSES is thus to support the development of Stockholm as an economic region for business creation, through scientific research, academic and practitioner education and business creation activities in close collaboration with universities, the business community and public agencies. SSES could be seen as a response to the demand for a more active role for institutions of higher education in industrial and social development (the triple helix model).
The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship believes that the best business education is delivered through a combination of three critical pedagogic principles.:
- Action - to focus the pedagogic process on creating real value through action, through creating conditions for developing business creation processes.
- Diversity: SSES is an arena where people with very different backgrounds and competencies can, by means of collaboration, increase their understanding of innovation and entrepreneurial processes in research, and of entrepreneurial ability and capacity in education and business lab activities.
- Imagination: This is the very core of creative entrepreneurial and innovative processes, not only in terms of the early phases of product development, but also as a parameter for overall strategic change and development. By involving scholars and students from the Arts, we strive to encourage and develop our understanding of processes of imagination, and of the importance of imagination in business creation.
Main motives for SSES to enter BEPART cooperation were: incubator management and training of incubates, evaluation and benchmarking of entrepreneurship training and education, and the mutual exchange of alternative and effective teaching approaches and tools. The work-packages assigned to SSES within BEPART ended by June 2005, and cooperation takes place as an associated partner.
Contact-person at SSES:
Claudia Hakanen, MSc
Contact Information
Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship - SSES
Research-Coordinator
PO Box 6501/Saltmätargatan 9
SE 11383 Stockholm
Web www.sses.se
