Dominant Lens “The problems have got to be something that’s bigger than any, one individual, in any one field. So we like to talk about how we’re moving towards transdisciplinarity as opposed to just interdisciplinarity.” “I’m trying to pull together diverse ideas from different fields." "It's sort of taking some theoretical ideas from other groups that have published these ideas and actually implementing them in a real system and seeing how that behaves in real life" This dominant lens of innovation says that innovation involves multidisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, or combinations of categories of knowledge - such as applying the methods of one field to another. | Challenging Lens “What came to my mind is gay marriage. Feels really innovative to me because it's so picked-up steam in this country so fast…” The challenging lens of innovation does not privilege multidisciplinarity or transdisciplinarity. This appeared in the data through people talking about innovation by listing innovative things that are not multidisciplinary. |
The Big Picture
Dendrogram of key words of interest in "dominant" microinterviews
The image above shows a dendrogram of key words of interest in the microinterviews that were categorized as reflecting the dominant way of speaking about innovation. Dendrograms show how frequently words appear near each other, so that words that typically appear close to each other share a fork that appears very close to the left side of the image.
The words themselves are underlined in a different color depending on whether they are a dominant word (red), a non-dominant word (blue), or both (green). The interesting thing about this dendrogram is that even though it's limited to words of interest appearing in "dominant" microinterviews, non-dominant words still appear and are associated with each other and dominant words.
The words themselves are underlined in a different color depending on whether they are a dominant word (red), a non-dominant word (blue), or both (green). The interesting thing about this dendrogram is that even though it's limited to words of interest appearing in "dominant" microinterviews, non-dominant words still appear and are associated with each other and dominant words.