Creating value across boundaries

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The effective use of professional or academic teams from different disciplines can help develop new solutions to complex problems or research questions.

UK policymakers are keen on both interdisciplinary teamwork and innovation, yet there is a lack of clarity about how interdisciplinary innovation works in practice or about the optimum conditions for its development.

This report seeks to fill that gap. The report draws on interviews with over 500 people who have been involved in interdisciplinary teams, many of them among the most innovative leaders in their field.

Published
May 2010

Author
Alan Blackwell, Lee Wilson, Charles Boulton and John Knell