A gift from the Hamrin Foundation has made it possible for the MMTC to establish a Hamrin International Professor in strategic management and leadership with a focus on media companies and a distinguished visiting professorship for leading scholars in the field. The Hamrin professorship will be a full time, permanent position teaching leading research and directing doctoral studies, among other things. The visiting professorship is intended to bring leading mid-career and senior faculty, or thoughtful industry professionals with appropriate academic qualifications, to Jönköping International Business School for terms ranging from 3 to 6 months.

The centre has also received funding from a Hamrin Foundation grant for a 5-year programme to explore how processes of content gathering and production influence how audiences receive and interpret content. It will link journalists, broadcasters, editors, and media executives with scholars and the public together to explore how media influence daily life and how journalistic practices can be improved.

In addition to this, the MMTC has received a grant from the KK Stiftelsen (The Knowledge Foundation) to explore how Swedish book publishers are being affected by new media technologies. The grant is being used to establish research collaboration between industry and academia that will serve as the basis for a longer-term research project and enable efficient knowledge transfer between the two sectors.