Transdisciplinary approach for industrial innovation management

After the invention era of 20th century for computer and communication technology, information and communication technology (ICT) industry calls for innovation which transforms inventions in 20th century to societal values. The present paper examines current industrial efforts for the innovation and explores possible approaches to the innovation. Transdisciplinary approaches which has been stemming from traditional systems engineering are identified the most promising to the goal. Among transdisciplinarity, importance of computational management science is emphasized and, in order to realize this idea, current researches on systems dynamics and multi-agent simulation are examined from the view of systematic innovation support.