Creating Transdisciplinary Knowledge: Learning from Working in the Field How Engineers and Social Scientists Can Collaborate in Participative Enterprise Development

This paper presents the action and intellectual agenda for transdisciplinary research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The research aims at integrating technological and social science knowledge in a participative effort in enterprise development. It is argued that there are clear similarities between the epistemological foundation of engineering and action research oriented social science. Emphasis is also placed on how the cooperation within the research team and the participative approach to enterprise developments shapes the type of knowledge that is produced.