Mission-driven innovation projects are meant to solve society's biggest challenges. But new research from the Stockholm School of Economics shows that the way these projects are organised risks directing attention away from local and regional needs - limiting their potential for real-world impact.

What do new hospitals, universities, and transport networks have in common? They often exist thanks to partnerships between the public and private sectors. At GaPP's Lunch & Learn on October 8, students got a behind-the-scenes look at how these collaborations, and the people behind them, make large-scale public projects happen.

On October 3, the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP) and the Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) co-hosted a seminar on Europe's green industrial transformation.

Earlier this summer, undergraduate students from across the CIVICA alliance of European universities gathered at SNSPA in Bucharest for European Week 2025.

How should we evaluate performance in the public sector when so many outcomes depend on factors beyond local control? A new study from the Center for Municipality Governance at the Stockholm School of Economics, published in The Accounting Review, one of the world's top three accounting journals, explores this question through the lens of the "controllability principle".

On September 17, the Stockholm School of Economics hosted the roundtable From Crisis to Capacity - Strategic Foresight in the Public Sector, co-organized within the SustainGov program. The breakfast seminar brought together representatives from government agencies, municipalities, academia, and civil society to discuss how Sweden can strengthen its ability to anticipate and prepare for future challenges.

This week, the Stockholm School of Economics and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) launched the new Utvecklingskommuner (Innovation Municipalities) initiative in Nykvarn, one of four municipalities selected as pilot partners.

Professor Laurence Romani highlighted three common misconceptions about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, in a Dagens Industri (DI) special insert on the topic.

On August 18, 2025, the Karl-Adam Bonnier Center of Governance at the House of Governance and Public Policy hosted a roundtable dinner to discuss the need for a Master of Public Policy (MPP) program in Sweden. The conversation highlighted both the urgency and opportunity of investing in the next generation of societal leaders.