Episode 6 - Out of Their Safety Zones: Interdisciplinary Education and Transdisciplinary Thinking

“I have never let schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain

Education is one of the most important innovations the world has ever produced. The ability of individuals to pass on their hard-won knowledge and experience to another, in a fraction of the time it took to acquire, is a feat of incredible intellectual leverage. Today, we mine more than 50,000 new PhDs per year in the U.S. alone. Yet, with democratization of education has come standardization, the streamlining of teaching for the convenience of educators and administrators. In this episode, Patrick K. Sullivan and Catherine Cruz discuss how multidisciplinary early education gives way to specialization at the grad and post-graduate levels and how this narrow domain of expertise can be a disaster for innovation if left unchecked.

Oceanit practices ‘Intellectual Anarchy’ – empowering teams to break down traditional silos, transcend disciplines, and cross-pollinate ideas and expertise. We create breakthrough ideas, insights, discoveries, and developments — delivering the future as an interdisciplinary force. Through spinouts, co-development partnerships, licensing, and direct manufacturing, Oceanit thrives in delivering solutions to market at scale. Oceanit calls this practice ‘Mind-to-Market’, delivering deep science to disruptive, real-world innovations at scale and impact.

Intellectual Anarchy: The Art of Disruptive Innovation by Dr. Patrick K. Sullivan is available on Amazon. Get your copy at https://bit.ly/2Vk5bhN. 

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