Do What You Love!

But Only for the Right Reasons

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Measuring What Matters

New Research Recap

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Teaching the Future
Before It Arrives

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MSc courses

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Our PHD courses

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How to apply to SSES

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A selection of our courses

Advanced quantitative methods in entrepreneurship and innovation research

The course provides an overview of quantitative research methods, with a particular focus on applications in studies of entrepreneurship and innovation.

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Growth – Managing Your Firm
(Fall 2025)

Running an expanding business demands a whole lot from any entrepreneur. Growth shares skills and insights needed to manage entrepreneurial firms under those challenging but exciting conditions.

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Designing Empirical Research in Entrepreneurship

This course introduces students to research designs commonly used by social scientists to study people, organizations, and markets. To demonstrate empirical techniques, approaches from various fields and contexts are used throughout the course.

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Entrepreneurial Family Firms

Family firms represent the most common form of business organisation across the world; both among established firms and new start-ups. Family-owned firms dominate most industries and they are not only small or medium-sized enterprises.

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Business Model Innovation
(Fall 2025)

Once your business is up and running, you will no doubt want to grow it into a successful operation that can adapt with an ever-changing world. Business Model Innovation offers you the opportunity to develop a unique skill-set that has helped many of the world’s leading enterprises.

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Business Model Innovation
(spring 2026)

Once your business is up and running, you will no doubt want to grow it into a successful operation that can adapt with an ever-changing world. Business Model Innovation offers you the opportunity to develop a unique skill-set that has helped many of the world’s leading enterprises.

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An Interdisciplinary Platform

We transcend disciplines and combine the diverse ideas from medicine, technology, economics, design, and the humanities in order to accelerate cross-disciplinary action.

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A Cutting-edge Curriculum

At the very forefront of knowledge, we provide courses, workshops and experiences designed to give you the skills needed to thrive in uncertainty.

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A Community of Curiosity

Since 1999 we have been elevating minds, generating ventures, forging connections and inspiring new ways of thinking. Today, we are a vast network of silo-busters, system-thinkers and change-makers constantly questioning the taken-for-granted.

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A Unique Innovation Engine

We take ideas seriously, but also believe in the power of failure, and failing forward. Therefore, we offer you an explorative space to test, develop and sharpen your ideas in order to turn your vision into reality.

Member Universities

An interdisciplinary network of Stockholm’s leading universities in entrepreneurship education – bringing together medicine, technology, economics, design, and the humanities. Through collaboration between KI, KTH, SSE, Konstfack, KMH, and Stockholm University, SSES fosters innovation and entrepreneurial thinking across disciplines.

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Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music in Stockholm educates musicians and music teachers at the highest international level. KMH traces its roots back to 1771, and has recently moved into a modern campus area—the music college of the future. They preserve our musical heritage, and at the same time they are constantly developing.

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Konstfack

Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design is Sweden’s biggest and oldest artistic, public university. 900 students attend the educations that range from art teacher training, a curator program to fine arts and furniture design.

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Karolinska Institutet

Karolinska Institutet (KI) is one of the world’s foremost medical universities. Karolinska’s vision is to make a significant contribution to the improvement of human health; their mission is to conduct research and education and to interact with the community.

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KTH

With over 14,500 students and 1,700 postgraduate students, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) is Sweden’s largest technological university. The Institute conducts education and research across a broad spectrum – from natural science to all branches of technology.

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Stockholm School of Economics

Founded in 1909, the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) has 2,200 students and its researchers rank among the best in the world in areas such as health economics, finance, business law and economics.

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Stockholm University

Stockholm University, in the capital of Sweden, is characterised by openness, innovation and collaboration. Ranked among the world’s top 100 universities, Stockholm University is one of Europe’s leading centres for higher education and research in human science and science.

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