Interdisciplinary strategies in U.S. research universities include incentive grants, campus-wide institutes, and new faculty hiring and evaluation methods to spur collaborative research across traditional departmental and disciplinary boundaries.

‘Interdisciplinary strategies’ in U.S. research universities

Design strategies can foster interdisciplinary collaboration and collective creativity, promoting rich conversations and decision-making in complex research problems.

Collective creativity: strategies for catalyzing interdisciplinary research

Successful interdisciplinary research involves full intellectual participation by each contributing field, resulting in innovative insights and complex questions.

The “Inter” Within Interdisciplinary Research: Strategies for Building Integration Across Fields

This paper proposes a framework for sustained effectiveness of interdisciplinary collaboration through inter-relational reflexivity.

Fostering Learning and Reciprocity in Interdisciplinary Research

Navigating positionality in collaborative interdisciplinary research can advance understanding and practice, benefiting both science and technology studies.

Researching Collaborative Interdisciplinary Teams

Successful scientific collaborations are characterized by trust, shared vision, strategic team building, disagreement, conflict management, and clear expectations for sharing credit and authorship.

Collaboration and Team Science

Internally incentivizing interdisciplinarity through research platforms may generate tensions and shallow interactions, highlighting potential limits on the value of promoting interdisciplinarity through internal funding.

Internally Incentivized Interdisciplinarity: Organizational Restructuring of Research and Emerging Tensions

Learning to collaborate while collaborating can enhance interdisciplinary sustainability research by addressing challenges and cultivating collaborative capacities.

Learning to collaborate while collaborating: advancing interdisciplinary sustainability research

Strategic team science workshops effectively promote collaboration and practice-based research among investigators at Research Centers in Minority Institutions.

Strategic Team Science Promotes Collaboration and Practice-Based Research at the Research Centers in Minority Institutions

Interdisciplinary research organizations in universities can benefit from collaborative innovation by targeting frontier science, national development needs, and establishing effective operating mechanisms.

University Interdisciplinary Research Organizations in the Process of Collaborative Innovation: Advantages, Difficulties and Strategies

This paper presents a toolkit to overcome communication challenges in interdisciplinary energy research by building a common vocabulary and facilitating effective face-to-face group discussions.

Tackling the challenge of interdisciplinary energy research: A research toolkit

A national strategy for biomedical shared research resources is crucial to advance key national initiatives, enable long-term research efficiency, and provide a solid foundation for the next generation of scientists.

Establishing a national strategy for shared research resources in biomedical sciences

Collaborative learning models using peer review assessment through a learning web-platform can enhance content assimilation, improve scientific skills, and promote active learning in science and engineering students.

A collaborative working model for enhancing the learning process of science & engineering students

Expanding measures of success in interdisciplinary ecology research can help defray the costs of collaboration and better reflect the diverse outputs and applications of scientific findings.

Improving the culture of interdisciplinary collaboration in ecology by expanding measures of success

Interdisciplinary co-authorship in cancer centers increased over time, but more diverse ties between research program members are needed for more transformative science.

Assessing Research Collaboration through Co-authorship Network Analysis.

Interdisciplinary research collaboration in instructional technology has been limited, except for psychology, but fields like human performance technology, instructional design, learning sciences, and human resource development are converging to improve organizational performance.

Identifying Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Instructional Technology

Interdisciplinary collaboration research has steadily increased over a 20-year period, but there is insufficient evidence to support the belief that this type of research is generally of higher quality.

A study of interdisciplinary research collaboration

Strategic Team Science effectively increases research self-efficacy and interdisciplinary research orientation in biomedical science trainees, promoting diversity and inclusion in research.

Strategic Team Science: Scaffolded training for research self-efficacy, interdisciplinarity, diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence in biomedical research

Interdisciplinary dementia research can be improved by using boundary brokers, combining theory, research approaches, organizing for collaboration, joint activities, separate activities, and using artefacts.

Seven Ways to Foster Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Research Involving Healthcare and Creative Research Disciplines

Successful company-university research collaborations involve leveraging intellectual property portfolios, benchmarking processes and products, recruiting experienced technical talent, cost avoidance, and philanthropy.

Strategies for Building Successful Company-University Research Collaborations

What are the strategies for promoting interdisciplinary research and collaboration in science and technology?

These studies suggest strategies for promoting interdisciplinary research and collaboration in science and technology include incentive grants, campus-wide institutes, new faculty hiring methods, design strategies, strategic team building, trust, shared vision, conflict management, and strategic workshops.