Innovation lessons from the unicorn factory
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN has been dubbed a unicorn factory for producing more billion-dollar technology companies per capita than any region in the world except Silicon Valley, despite having just one million inhabitants. Skype, Spotify, Minecraft, and Candy Crush Saga are just some examples of Stockholm’s output in recent years.
Bringing his deep expertise from Stockholm to the Philippines is Dr. Erik Wetter, a visiting professor at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) and faculty member at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), ranked as the leading business school in Scandinavia.
At SSE, he teaches digital transformation in collaboration with the data scientists of Spotify and fintech company iZettle. The latter was acquired by PayPal in May for more than $ 2 billion. For a number of years, Mr. Wetter also served as director of SSE Business Lab, the school’s incubator and innovation lab that, since 2010, has incubated over 100 successful technology ventures.
“Swedish insights are actually very relevant for the Philippines, as our innovation ecosystem is a recent development that came on top of an economic foundation of natural resources and basic industries, family-owned conglomerates, and tangible administrative and regulatory hurdles for companies,” Mr. Wetter said.
From July 26 to 27, he will deliver a two-day course on data science strategy at the AIM campus. The course will focus on how corporations are monetizing their data, creating growth opportunities through an otherwise untapped resource for most companies. The course will also touch on the Philippine Data Privacy Act in terms of legal and responsible data leveraging. Participants in the 2-day course will also learn the methods and principles of network science and data analytics; for instance, which information is most crucial to what type of business and which indicators can be interpreted from segmenting data pools.
For inquiries and reservations, contact Ylaij Santos via telephone +632 465-2815 or e-mail