%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2018 %T Editorial: Transdisciplinary Innovation (August 2018) %A Chris McPhee %A Martin Bliemel %A Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer %K innovation %K interdisciplinary %K learning %K multidisciplinary %K practice %K transdisciplinarity %K transdisciplinary %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 8 %P 3-6 %8 08/2018 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1173 %N 8 %1 Technology Innovation Management Review Chris McPhee is Editor-in-Chief of the Technology Innovation Management Review. Chris holds an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and BScH and MSc degrees in Biology from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He has nearly 20 years of management, design, and content-development experience in Canada and Scotland, primarily in the science, health, and education sectors. As an advisor and editor, he helps entrepreneurs, executives, and researchers develop and express their ideas. %2 University of Technology Sydney Martin Bliemel is the Director of the Diploma in Innovation at the new Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Martin holds a BSc (Mechanical Engineering) and MBA from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and a PhD in Business from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. His research interests include entrepreneurial networks, accelerators, education, research commercialization, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and the entrepreneurial university. His research has been published in several prestigious journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Education+Training, the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, and the Entrepreneurship Research Journal, where one of his articles on entrepreneurship education is the journal’s most downloaded article. Martin is a recipient of the nationally competitive Office of Learning and Teaching Citation. %3 University of Technology Sydney Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Her research interests span the fields of human-centred design, systemic design, and public and social sector innovation. As a lecturer, she is responsible for coordinating part of the transdisciplinary degree Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Mieke holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology and a PhD on the topic of user-centred design from the University of Twente, both in the Netherlands. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1173 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2018 %T Exploring the Transdisciplinary Learning Experiences of Innovation Professionals %A Mariana Zafeirakopoulos %A Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer %K emotion %K experience %K learning %K professional %K transdisciplinary %X Transdisciplinary innovation inherently involves learning how to integrate disciplines towards exploring a problem or towards developing a solution or technology. Thus, transdisciplinary innovation and transdisciplinary learning are practically interchangeable. Although transdisciplinary learning has been studied and experimented with in educational research, the understanding of it in a professional context is limited. We therefore aim our research at addressing this question of how people shift their practice towards other disciplines to address complex issues. We chose to focus on a particularly challenging context – the shift from positivist to non-positivist learning across the career of transdisciplinary innovators when addressing complex problems. What makes this context challenging is that the siloed and heavily specialized nature of working within a disciplinary construct discourages collaboration on real-world complex problems. This context is also challenging because the analytic focus from positivist disciplines results in a reductionist approach, which limits an innovator’s ability to explore problems holistically and abductively. An understanding of the learning experiences of practitioners in these contexts will inform the identification of relevant variables and attributes that encourage innovative learning for ultimately innovative practice. This identification might help us develop better support and education for innovation professionals who want to adopt transdisciplinary practices for the purposes of addressing complex problems. In this article, we discuss the results of a series of in-depth interviews to understand the learning experiences of design innovation practitioners who experienced a shift away from positivist approaches towards transdisciplinary innovation practice. We explore the research approach undertaken to study the motivations and drivers, the emotions experienced during the shift, and the implementation and dissemination of the new learning into professional practice. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 8 %P 50-59 %8 08/2018 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1178 %N 8 %1 University of Technology Sydney Mariana Zafeirakopoulos is a Senior Strategic Design Practitioner at the University of Technology Sydney’s Design Innovation Research Centre/Designing Out Crime Research Centre and freelance Intelligence Capability Advisor in Sydney, Australia. Mariana is currently pursuing her PhD exploring how intelligence analysis approaches can be enhanced by design innovation and transdisciplinary approaches to address complex social problems such as radicalization. Mariana holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Social Sciences (War Studies) from King’s College London, a Bachelors in Law from the University of New South Wales, and a Bachelor in Arts (Government and International Relations, and Asian Studies) from the University of Sydney. %2 University of Technology Sydney Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. Her research interests span the fields of human-centred design, systemic design, and public and social sector innovation. As a lecturer, she is responsible for coordinating part of the transdisciplinary degree Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation. Mieke holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology and a PhD on the topic of user-centred design from the University of Twente, both in the Netherlands. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1178 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2018 %T From Importing Innovations to Co-Producing Them: Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Development of Online Land Management Tools %A Alex Baumber %A Graciela Metternicht %A Peter Ampt %A Rebecca Cross %A Emily Berry %K adaptive %K co-production %K collaboration %K decision-support %K innovation %K land management %K tools %K transdisciplinary %X While traditional approaches to innovation diffusion often assume that innovations come from outside a local system, transdisciplinary co-production offers an alternative paradigm in which local stakeholders are engaged as co-producers of innovations. The use of digital online tools for agriculture, conservation, and citizen science is an area of expanding opportunities, but landholders are often dependent on tools developed outside their local communities. This article looks at the potential for transdisciplinary co-production to be used as a framework for more participatory development of digital online land management tools, with a case study from the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. This research has implications beyond rural land management to other industries and contexts where reflexive and integrative strategies are needed to overcome barriers to stakeholder participation and engagement with new technologies. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 8 %P 16-26 %8 08/2018 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1175 %N 8 %1 University of Technology Sydney Alex Baumber is a Scholarly Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has undertaken collaborative research on a range of rural sustainability issues, including revegetation, bioenergy, agroforestry, wildlife management, and carbon accounting. Research grants include projects on Landholder Collaboration (NSW Environmental Trust), Low Carbon Tourism (CRC for Low-Carbon Living 2013–2015), Optimising Revegetation Management for Regent Honeyeater Recovery (NSW Environmental Trust 2013–2016), the Central Tablelands Agroforestry Bioenergy Project (RIRDC and DAFF 2010–12), and the Barrier Ranges Sustainable Wildlife Enterprise Trial (RIRDC 2006–2009). %2 University of New South Wales Graciela Metternicht is a Professor in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She has expertise and experience in land degradation assessment and monitoring, ecosystem-based approaches to land use planning, and sustainable development. Her prior and current work includes working with UN Environment, the UNCCD, and as a reviewer of major reports of the Convention of Biological Diversity and of the State of the Environment Australia Report 2016. Metternicht has experience in leading multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral projects in environmental assessment and management, including the Collaborative Planning Support Tools for Optimising Farming Systems (funded by the Australian Research Council). %3 University of Sydney Peter Ampt is a Lecturer in Natural Resource Management and Extension at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has expertise in participatory research, which seeks to integrate production and conservation, including as a lead investigator for the project Landholder Collaboration for Landscape-scale Conservation (NSW Environmental Trust 2016–18). His roles include manager of the Future of Australia’s Threatened Ecosystems (FATE) program and steering committee member for the Communities in Landscapes (CiL) project, which aimed at improving the management of Box Gum grassy woodlands under the Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country program. Ampt’s track record includes participatory research projects such as the Central Tablelands Agroforestry Bioenergy Project (RIRDC and DAFF 2010–12) and the Barrier Ranges Sustainable Wildlife Enterprise Trial (RIRDC 2006–2009). %4 University of Sydney Rebecca Cross is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has led the development of participatory social research methodology for the Landholder Collaboration project (NSW Environmental Trust) and has worked on several projects including Communities in Landscapes (CiL) (funded by Caring for Our Country, 2010–2012) and Mining and Biodiversity Offsetting in Agricultural Landscapes in Mudgee, NSW and the Burdekin, QLD (UNSW, 2014). %# University of New South Wales Emily Berry provided support for social research and coordination of the project Landholder Collaboration for Landscape-scale Conservation (NSW Environmental Trust 2016–18). She holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Environmental Management from the University of New South Wales and has also undertaken research into landholder perceptions of land degradation in the Far West NSW, private land conservation in NSW, and cultural land management in the NSW Central Tablelands. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1175 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2017 %T Realistic Creativity Training for Innovation Practitioners: The Know–Recognize–React Model %A Dagny Valgeirsdottir %A Balder Onarheim %K co-creation %K cognitive creativity %K creative awareness %K creative process %K creativity %K creativity training %K front-end innovation %K innovation process %K metacognition %K transdisciplinary %X Creativity is increasingly being recognized as important raw material for innovation, which highlights the importance of identifying ways to increase the creativity of practitioners. In this article, we describe our efforts to design a creativity training program specifically for innovation practitioners. Our aim was to develop a program that would be both theoretically sound (i.e., based on a rigorous scientific foundation) and relevant for practitioners (i.e., applicable to real-world contexts). Our transdisciplinary study employed co-creation as a method to ensure that three layers of focus would be taken into consideration: metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive monitoring, and metacognitive control. The result is a program called Creative Awareness Training, which is based on the new Know–Recognize–React model. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 7 %P 5-15 %8 06/2017 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1080 %N 6 %1 Technical University of Denmark Dagny Valgeirsdottir is a PhD researcher and is part of the Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship research group in the Department of Management Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. Her research focuses on developing ways to enhance individual creativity by optimizing creativity training through the application of metacognitive approaches. She is the author of numerous articles on the topic and is currently working on finalizing her dissertation. Dagny furthermore contributes to the Copenhagen Institute of NeuroCreativity, which is an institute devoted to enhancing creativity of individuals and teams applying principles from neuroscience. %2 Technical University of Denmark Balder Onarheim is Associate Professor in Creativity and is part of the Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship research group in the Department of Management Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. His expertise lies within a neurobiological understanding of creativity and methods to use this understanding to improve individuals’ capabilities in creative problem solving. Balder is moreover the founder of the Copenhagen Institute of NeuroCreativity and the CEO at PlatoScience, which is making a neurostimulator to enhance performance in knowledge work. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1080