What is Team Science?

In general, the term ‘team science’ is used to refer to a collaborative approach that draws concepts and technologies from multiple fields to develop a new perspective on answering research questions or solving complex problems.

(Disis, et.al.)

More specifically:

Transdisciplinarity is an integrative process in which researchers work jointly to develop and use a shared conceptual framework that synthesizes and extends discipline-specific theories, concepts, methods, or all three to create new models and language to address a common research problem.

Interdisciplinarity is an interactive process in which researchers work jointly, each drawing from his or her own discipline-specific perspective, to address a common research problem.

Multidisciplinarity is a sequential process whereby researchers in different disciplines work independently, each from his or her own discipline-specific perspective, with a goal of eventually combining efforts to address a common research problem.

Unidisciplinarity is a process in which researchers from a single discipline work together to address a common research problem. [What we don’t want to do….]

Stokols, D, Hall, KL, Taylor, BK, and Moser, RP.  The Science of Team Science:  Overview of the Field and Introduction to the Supplement.  American Journal of Preventive Medicine 35(2S):S77 2008.