Abstract
Whether the context for knowledge production and innovation is the set of major research universities, system of government agencies and federal laboratories, or the research and development efforts of industry, boundary-spanning and transdisciplinary collaborative engagement is essential in addressing the complex scientific and technological challenges that confront society. Effective transdisciplinary collaboration, however, requires an optimally configured institutional framework as well as an academic culture conducive to innovation. Despite broad consensus regarding the imperative for transdisciplinarity, however, disciplinary acculturation continues to shape successive generations of scientists, scholars, and practitioners while the traditional correlation between disciplines and departments persists as the basis for academic organization. This chapter thus examines aspects of the accommodation of transdisciplinarity within the set of American research universities relevant to the advancement of team science and offers a case study of the restructuring of academic organization undertaken to advance transdisciplinary collaboration at Arizona State University.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Strategies for Team Science Success |
| Subtitle of host publication | Handbook of Evidence-Based Principles for Cross-Disciplinary Science and Practical Lessons Learned from Health Researchers |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Pages | 477-488 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030209926 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783030209902 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Academic culture
- Arizona State University
- ASU
- Collaboration
- Disciplinarity
- Innovation
- Institutional change
- Interdisciplinarity
- Knowledge production
- Research universities
- Transdisciplinarity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Psychology
- General Medicine