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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

    We run Strategic Foresight Leadership Programmes for the teams who set direction inside organisations.

  • II.

    Learn

    Insight · Translate · Practise

    Personalised professional development that turns foresight into the capability to do something about it.

  • III.

    Project Hub

    Intent · Build · Deliver

    Funded capacity-building, pilots, and research — moving ideas from paper to the field, on public budgets.

  • IV.

    Amplify

    Publish · Reach · Revise

    Platforms, digital tools, editions, and knowledge hubs that let the outputs travel further than the originating room.

B.SectorsCurrent disposition

  • i.

    Sport

    ↑ Rising

    8 ongoing projects

  • ii.

    Energy & Climate

    → Steady

    emerging

  • 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.

  • 22 April

    Oslo · MMXXVI

    Field notes

    Strategic Foresight 4 Sport — notes from the kick-off

    Twelve federations in one room, three hours, one foresight brief on the table. What we thought would be a polite opening turned into an argument about how the sector actually allocates attention. Published under SF4Sport.

  • 04 April

    Amsterdam · MMXXVI

    Ledger

    128,000 Cordis records loaded to the desk

    The Amsterdam data engine now holds 128k Cordis records alongside 90k entity masters. Cross-programme queries become tractable at last. Short report to follow.

  • 01 April

    Dublin · MMXXVI

    Launch

    AI Nexus Ireland — site built

    The Dublin studio ships the first build of ainexusireland.com. Celtic knot component library, Next 16, quiet deploy pending domain configuration.

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.

hi@collectiveinnovation.no

Or by post · Myrens Verksted 6D · 0473 Oslo · Norway

— Collective Innovation

Oslo, Spring Edition · MMXXVI