A rose by any other name? Transdisciplinarity in the context of UK research policy

Futures

Volumn 65, Issue , 2015, Pages 150-162

  Lyall, Catherine ^a   Meagher, Laura ^b   Bruce, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Technology Development Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Impact; Interdisciplinarity; Knowledge exchange; Knowledge mobilisation; Training; Transdisciplinarity; UK

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; KNOWLEDGE; POLICY APPROACH; RESEARCH; TRAINING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84923045337     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2014.08.009     Document Type: Article

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