Intimate professional interactions at work (that is interactions conducted in small teams with high level of trust) enhance employees' understanding and engagement with innovation. Published in Creativity and Innovation Management, this study explores how different types of intimacy affect the meaningfulness of innovation processes in organizations.

In the complex and often uncertain landscape of Information Systems (IS) projects, senior IS managers face the daunting task of maintaining control and ensuring successful outcomes. A recent academic paper investigates how project uncertainty influences these managers' control-style choices and how these choices impact the performance of IS projects.

After an intensive admissions period, SSE Business Lab is taking in eleven new companies. The startups are tackling challenges like the green energy transition and people’s deteriorating private finances.

Read the 2022 "Year in Review" to learn about this year’s research, education, and outreach achievements at the House of Innovation.

New research reveals that older adults use digital healthcare platforms (DHPs) in unique ways compared to younger individuals, highlighting significant behavioral differences. Published in the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, this study delves into these differences and offers insights into how digital healthcare services can better cater to elderly users.

This year’s Social Innovation Scholarship has been awarded to Lukas Uhrström, Ludvig Hartler and Jan-Hendrik Wieder. These students were awarded for their work with the Tutu Tribe Entrepreneurship Academy in Cape Town, South Africa. The scholarship will support them this summer while working for and supporting a social entrepreneur, leveraging their business skills to create positive change. Social innovation and social entrepreneurship are initiatives aimed to improve what is missing or not working in the social structure: new solutions, methods and ideas that create a sustainable society – economically, socially and ecologically.

House of Innovation is proud to present its latest PhD graduate: Dr. Emma Rui Lu. She has successfully defended her thesis today, and we congratulate her on this momentous achievement.

We seek applicants for the 2022 intake to the SSE PhD program in Business Administration.

The House of Innovation (HOI) at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) is seeking applicants for its PhD program in Business Administration.

In a combined effort to strengthen Sweden’s international competitiveness, the School’s startup incubator has partnered up with Microsoft Sweden. By supporting the incubator, the tech corporation wants to help SSE Business Lab’s startups accelerate their growth journeys. Through the partnership, the startups gain access to powerful development and productivity tools and become part of Microsoft’s global network of startups.