Research managers, policy makers, and scholars of knowledge policy and organizational theory will also be interested. The International Transdisciplinarity Conference was a defining event in the evolution of a new discourse of transdisciplinary problem solving that is linked with a new climate for participatory research on problems of sustainability, changes in the nature of disciplinary research, and the emergence of new knowledge fields. The added value compared to disciplinary research lies in the potential of problem solving but especially in the potential of problem identification. It is time to go broader and broader as well. We observe a severe imbalance in the world - between where science is generated and where it may be applied.
Transdisciplinary perspective can allow for integrating the 'Northern' and the 'Southern' views.