Anna Essén
Anna Essén is an Associate Professor with the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology at the Stockholm School of Economics. She is committed to the study of how digital technology is shaped by and shapes what individuals, organizations, and societies focus their attention on, find it worthwhile to aim for and feel capable of achieving. Her current projects concern the co-evolution of digital infrastructures, business models among firms and public organizations, and institutions, including longitudinal studies of digital innovations driven by tech-entrepreneurs, patient networks, and professional organizations in healthcare. Other projects concern the emergence of cross-sectoral collaborations in relation to autonomous transport markets and smart cities, and the design of ecosystems aiming for prevention (the elimination of cancer as a cause of death. Her studies cover topics such as the dynamics of distributed digital innovation, how algorithms conceal and make voices visible, the art of ignoring of public performance data, how biodata can become unaccumulated, unusable, and unused, and how technology use at the microlevel can generate institutional change at the macrolevel.