Sport ↑ risingSpace ↑↑ acceleratingEnergy & Climate → steadyEdition VII · April MMXXVIOslo · Amsterdam · Dublin128,000 Cordis records loaded, Amsterdam deskSpace Insights — 16 dispatches publishedProject Hub · Nydalen, OsloForesight Leadership Programme — in preparationSport ↑ risingSpace ↑↑ acceleratingEnergy & Climate → steadyEdition VII · April MMXXVIOslo · Amsterdam · Dublin128,000 Cordis records loaded, Amsterdam deskSpace Insights — 16 dispatches publishedProject Hub · Nydalen, OsloForesight Leadership Programme — in preparation

Oslo · 23 April MMXXVI

On innovating collectively.

An editorial, a ledger, and a record of works in progress — written and revised by the people at Collective Innovation, a small ecosystem of organisations based in Oslo and working across Europe since 2019.

Set in Fraunces & Source Serif · Composed for screen

Editorial
Front page

§ IThere is a view, widely held and rarely examined, that innovation belongs to a department. That it can be hired. That someone, somewhere, is supposed to be doing it while the rest of us get on with our lives. We do not share this view. For seven years we have worked from the opposite premise: that the questions worth answering are shaped by many hands, from different disciplines, with room to disagree well.

§ IIThe sectors we have chosen — sport, space, and energy & climate — are not fashionable by accident. They are where public benefit, scientific method, and commercial possibility converge awkwardly, and where working collectively is not merely nice but structurally required. A coach, a policy officer, and a satellite engineer will rarely solve the same problem alone. Put them in a room with a shared deadline and they often do.

§ IIIOur method has four movements. We call them Foresight, Learn, Project Hub, and Amplify. They are less a framework than a habit: scan honestly, translate to capability, deliver something real, and let the outputs travel. They form a loop, not a funnel; we re-enter it every quarter whether we have learned anything new or not.

§ IVWhat follows in this edition is a short record of what that looks like — who we work with, what we have shipped, and where the next questions live. It is published openly, without apology, and revised when we learn something that deserves to be written down. The edition number on this page will advance; the intent will not.

The Ledger

Four practices,
three sectors.

An accounting of how the ecosystem allocates attention, updated each quarter in long hand.

A.PracticesReviewed monthly

  • I.

    Foresight

    Scan · Scenario · Brief · Facilitate

    Patient signal scanning, scenarios, briefs, and the workshops that translate the document into mandates.

  • II.

    Learn

    Intake · Curriculum · Delivery · Evaluation

    Personalised programmes for defined audiences, written ourselves rather than bought in. Education as method.

  • III.

    Project Hub

    Intent · Build · Deliver

    Funded capacity-building, pilots and research on public budgets — the full European project pipeline, run in long hand.

  • IV.

    Amplify

    Publish · Reach · Revise

    Editions, platforms and content engines that carry the work past the people who were already going to read it.

B.SectorsCurrent disposition

  • i.

    Sport

    ↑ Rising

    6 ongoing projects

  • ii.

    Energy & Climate

    → Steady

    two active consortia

  • iii.

    Space

    ↑↑ Accelerating

    450+ space professionals

Foresight only matters if someone, somewhere, decides differently tomorrow. The rest is footnote.

— From the founding notes, Oslo, 2019

Correspondence

Dispatches,
received.

Short field notes filed from our desks in Oslo, Amsterdam and Dublin. In reverse chronological order, as is customary.

  • 27 April

    Oslo · MMXXVI

    Edition

    Green Tennis Comic Book — published

    Smart irrigation, the Rebel Ball, the Ball Eater, and a Wi-Fi hamster powering an entire tournament. The comic translates Green Tennis sustainability practice — refill stations, ball recycling, travel choices, energy savings — into a story clubs, federations and young players can put to use this season.

  • 25 April

    Oslo · MMXXVI

    Film

    SF4Sport — a short film, set in 2055

    An eight-year-old girl walks through a sports museum in 2055. The football is in one vitrine, a tennis racket in another. One vitrine is empty — a marathon used to live there. SF4Sport's foresight question, brought into a scene.

  • 22 April

    Oslo · MMXXVI

    Kick-off

    SF4Sport — kicked off in Oslo

    Seventeen partners — clubs, federations, startups, tech companies, academia — gathered in Oslo to launch SF4Sport. A three-year, EU-funded alliance bringing AI, deep tech and strategic foresight into how Europe prepares its sport sector for what is coming.

If any of the above quickens your pulse, or if you suspect we are mistaken about something important, we would like to hear from you. Letters to the editor are read carefully and replied to in person.

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— Collective Innovation

Oslo, Spring Edition · MMXXVI