TRANS is a new Academy of the Technical University of Delft in association with TNO and Royal Dutch KPN and the Cor Wit Foundation . It aims to spread the idea of “trans sector innovation” and bring stakeholders together, both from the academic world and the corporate world.
Trans sector Research Academy for complex Networks and Services
Today, our society is faced with complex challenges. Think, for example, of the problems we face in the transport, health-care sector or education sector. Required, disruptive innovations, often involving ICT, come to a grinding halt if the solutions are sought within one single domain/sector. Actors from different sectors have to be involved to close the solution both in terms of contributing components (knowledge, skills, infra- and process building blocks) as well as in a financial sense.
Thus, we approach the challenges in an integral way, where we see the sectors forming a network, rather than single silo’s. By looking at these exciting challenges through a cohesive network vision, a new huge set of perspectives, insights and modeling tools become available. Transferring (horizontally) attainments from one part to another part of the network or (vertically) from one aggregation level to another, comes within reach by discovering a plethora of isomorphic and congruent relations, respectively.
We learn to master the performance of the network as a whole and not to look at the individual nodes or links: a trans-sector or more generally a trans-nodal approach instead of a partial rational intra-sector or intra-nodal approach, respectively.
Here is a short film which introduces the concept of Trans Sector Approach and illustrates it with the Smart Living example.
