Bringing Discipline into Transdisciplinary Communications -The ISO 56000 Family of Innovation Standards-

Trans-disciplinary communication generates new knowledge that may lead to inventions that may be processed into innovations by ambidextrous organizations operating in a global innovation ecosystem. These ecosystems comprise global partnerships united by supply chains financed by multinational institutions whose professional talent originates in universities. For these ecosystems to succeed, their individual components must operate as open systems shareable by each and developed according to a mutually agreed set of rules or standards. In this paper, we will present the developing ISO 56000 family of standards as serving to bring discipline into the global innovation ecosystem.