Foresight and Transformative Innovation
Do you want to create change? Discover how foresight and transformative innovation can help you anticipate future challenges and opportunities, identify signals and develop strategies for a viable future.
About the course
Foresight is a way to explore, imagine and anticipate potential futures. It can enable identification of signals and emergent issues and also explore challenges and opportunities in these possible futures. This approach is necessary in any innovation process, but especially in transformative innovation where the objective is to create positive change on a larger scale.
Transformative innovation goes beyond disruptive and sustainable innovation. Systems need to respond to the changing environment and move towards a viable future.
If you are working, you can use the course exercises in your own development work. The goal is to create knowledge about the field itself, and also to provide the conditions for self-reflection and a future-oriented approach. These are key competencies, both for individuals and organizations. Our goal is to offer a course with a high degree of flexibility so that the studies can be combined with your work.
The course includes pre-recorded videos, texts and articles for self-study and the study pace is flexible. There are no scheduled meetings in the course.
You will learn how to
- apply concepts, methods and models in foresight for transformative innovation, identify weak signals and patterns for transformative innovation and experiment with methods and models together with stakeholders from different perspectives for future-informed innovation
- reflect on sustainable development and apply this knowledge in transformative innovation, as well as create representations of possible futures that promote problematization and critical reflection
Requirements
Below you find the entry requirements for the course. If you do not fulfill the requirements, you can get your eligibility evaluated based on knowledge acquired in other ways, such as work experience, other studies etcetera. Read more in Application information below.
Occasions for this course
Autumn semester 2025
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Scope
7.5 credits
Time
2025-09-01 - 2026-01-18 (part time 25%)
Education level
Second cycle
Course type
Freestanding course
Application code
MDU-24589
Language
English
Study location
Independent of location
Teaching form
Distance learning
Number of mandatory occasions including examination: 0
Number of other physical occasions: 0Course syllabus & literature
See course plan and literature list (INO417)Specific requirements
180 credits. In addition, Swedish B/Swedish 3 and English A/English 6 are required. In cases where the course is given in English, exceptions are made to the requirement for Swedish B/Swedish 3.
Selection
University credits
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Scope
7.5 credits
Time
2025-11-10 - 2026-01-18 (part time 50%)
Education level
Second cycle
Course type
Freestanding course
Application code
MDU-24011
Language
English
Study location
Eskilstuna
Course syllabus & literature
See course plan and literature list (INO417)Specific requirements
180 credits. In addition, Swedish B/Swedish 3 and English A/English 6 are required. In cases where the course is given in English, exceptions are made to the requirement for Swedish B/Swedish 3.
Selection
University credits
Questions about the course?
If you have any questions about the course, please contact the Course Coordinator.
Application information
You’ll find the entry requirements in the course description. After submitting your application, the next step is to submit documentation to demonstrate your eligibility for the course. Most academic credentials from Sweden are retrieved automatically. Wait a few days after submitting your application - if you still can’t see your academic credentials om My pages, please upload them.
If you have studied in another country, you must provide transcripts of your academic studies and of your English proficiency. Exactly what you need to submit and how, depends on several factors. You can read more on universityadmissions.se or antagning.se.
If the course requires work experience, you need to provide an employer’s certificate. You can download a template for employer’s certificate below.
No academic qualifications?
Many courses requires that you have previous academies studies, but we can validate work experience to determine whether you have the qualifications for the course.
If you don’t have the formal qualifications required, please send in a certificate of employment (current or previous) and a CV/Description of competence that describes your educational and professional background. Please include a short description of your work experience, not only the work title.
Use the CV/ Description of competence template below and fill in the information requested.
You can also use our template for Employers certificate if you like.
Download a template for CV/Description of competence
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If you have any questions regarding eligibility or application please send an e-mail to lifelonglearning