Rikard Westerberg writes in Engelsberg Ideas about Sweden's market turn

Even bigger steps towards the goal of getting more students to form companies are being taken by the Stockholm School of Economics and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The schools are strengthening their joint program and are assisted by the entrepreneurs behind Budbee, Estrid and PocketLaw, as well as investors from Summa Equity and Kinnevik.

Retail Management students, faculty and representatives from the partner companies met to kick-off the new retail club year.

Want to learn more about the latest research in finance, retail, innovation and sustainability? Have a listen to Sound Economy, a new podcast from the Stockholm School of Economics, featuring some of our most prominent researchers.

Welcome to a seminar on Thursday 15 September 2022 with Professor Kristin Asdal, TIK, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture.

Talent exists everywhere, but opportunities do not. The F1RST program, led by Daniel Sachs Foundation and the Stockholm School of Economics together with several key figures in the business community, strives to increase diversity in business schools and in the business sector.

Large-scale patterns on the walls and books wrapped in batik fabrics; the newly finished Yinka Shonibare Room is a pedagogical environment that not only provides state-of-the art light, sound, ergonomics and acoustics, it is a room that seeks to evoke emotion and elicit reflection over topics such as globalization, colonialism, world trade and the construction of cultural identity.

Affiliated researcher Max Jerneck has a background in sociology but has also studied literature and journalism. At SIR and SSE, his research focus has been on the climate transition, and how to develop low carbon industries, where he has been looking at solar energy in particular. His main project now, however, is immigrant integration and the Swedish hospitality industry.

Against the background of fast rising gasoline and diesel prices in 2022, a number of European countries have reduced fuel tax rates, often in the form of temporary “gas tax holidays”. In this policy brief, SITE researchers Julius Andersson and Celina Tippmann, analyse the tax incidence by comparing the gasoline price development in Sweden to that in Denmark, where the fuel tax rate remained unchanged.

MIRAI 2.0 is an academic alliance among 20 Universities in Sweden and Japan, aiming to promote long-term research collaboration between the two countries. The next MIRAI 2.0 Research and Innovation week will be organized on November 15-18, 2022 at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. The theme for the conference is “Sharing ONE future: Integrative Knowledge and Sustainable Transformation towards a better world”.