Blogs
Collaborative foresight is growing up – but what does it actually mean?
by Jaakko Paasi
– Over the last decade, “collaborative foresight” has quietly become a frequently used concept in futures research and practice. Across technology roadmapping, participatory scenario processes, open corporate foresight, and anticipatory governance, collaboration is everywhere. But as the concept becomes more popular, its meaning has become increasingly blurred.
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Partner spotlight: University of Turku
by Tero Villman & Sini Nordberg-Davies
– With its long traditions in futures research and B2B marketing, the University of Turku (UTU) contributes to FORECO with a combination of strategic foresight and market-shaping research by the Futures Distillery at Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) and the Centre for Collaborative Research (CCR) from Turku School of Economics. The project allows for continuity in UTU’s multidisciplinary research supporting business renewal in maritime, energy, and manufacturing industries, especially in multi-actor settings.
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Partner spotlight: LUT Business School
by Kirsimarja Blomqvist
– LUT University has a strong tradition of addressing complex societal and organizational challenges through collaboration with industry and other stakeholders. The Ecosystem Futuremaking Space builds on research on Fast Expert Teams, an online organizing model developed at LUT Business School. The project extends this work by exploring how digital environments can support knowledge co-creation, collective sensemaking, and coordinated action across organizational boundaries.
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Partner spotlight: Meyer Turku
by Kyle Bentz
– As a Leading Company (Veturi) partner in the FORECO project, Meyer Turku plays a key role in strengthening collaborative foresight across the maritime ecosystem.
Through FORECO, Meyer Turku aims to strengthen collaborative foresight as a capability that supports long-term strategic development. By building new approaches for understanding future trends and collaborating across the maritime ecosystem, the shipyard enhances its ability to anticipate future developments and contribute to the long-term competitiveness of the Finnish maritime industry.
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Partner spotlight: VTT
by Jaakko Paasi & Tiina Apilo
– As the coordinator of the FORECO project, VTT plays a central role in shaping how collaborative foresight is developed and implemented across ecosystems.
For VTT, FORECO is a strategic opportunity to advance its long-term work on corporate foresight, ecosystem collaboration, and innovation systems towards a more applied, systemic approach.
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Market shaping and the potential of collaborative foresight
by Sini Nordberg-Davies
– For a long time, markets have been treated as something outside the firm: a relatively stable, predictable environment, where the firm adapts to existing conditions and reacts to changes coming from the outside. Research and practice now challenge this thinking.
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Ecosystem orchestration: balancing “open to all” with an invitation-only club
by Katri Valkokari
– Many ecosystems describe themselves as “open”, but a closer look often tells a different story. Membership criteria are often implicit, participation is uneven, and access to information or decision-making tends to concentrate in a small inner circle. That does not make an ecosystem “bad”; it makes it human.
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Partner spotlight: FIBRES joins FORECO to explore collaborative foresight across ecosystems
by Panu Kause & Anna Grabtchak
– Foresight has outgrown the workshop room. As organisations operate in increasingly interconnected ecosystems, the challenge is no longer only how one company understands change, but how multiple actors can observe, interpret, and act on it together. In this context, collaborative foresight is moving from an idea to a practical capability.
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Expanding the business horizon through foresight in ecosystems
by Jaakko Paasi & Katri Valkokari
– Collaborative foresight in ecosystems is a powerful tool that enhances innovation, reduces uncertainty, and supports strategic decision-making through effective knowledge sharing and interorganisational collaboration. Today, ecosystems are using collaborative foresight mostly to create technology roadmaps to support planning within the ecosystem. Foresight in ecosystems, however, could go beyond that.
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