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Universities are knowledge-production systems of increasing importance, but their potential for solving societal problems has not been mobilized. Transdisciplinarity is a new way to organize work within universities, informed by concepts of “intellectual capital” and “reflexivity.” Transdisciplinarity holds promise for overcoming current deficits of human, structural-organizational, customer, and stakeholder capital, because it integrates different disciplinary, institutional, and community resources.
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Schneidewind, U. (2001). Mobilizing the Intellectual Capital of Universities. In: Klein, J.T., Häberli, R., Scholz, R.W., Grossenbacher-Mansuy, W., Bill, A., Welti, M. (eds) Transdisciplinarity: Joint Problem Solving among Science, Technology, and Society. Schwerpunktprogramm Umwelt / Programme Prioritaire Environnement / Priority Programme Environment. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8419-8_9
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