The interdisciplinarity category was undoubtedly one of the most desir-able and widely discussed metavalues of research in the first two decades of the twentieth century (see e.g. Lélé, Norgaard 2005; Jacobs, Frickel 2009; Moran 2010; Bammer 2017). We can describe its most import-ant claim as the social-and political-expectation that scientists should boldly draw from the paradigms of many disciplines and reach for the tools developed in different scientific methods (or as an "intra-academic integ-ration of different types of disciplinary knowledge"-as Frodeman [2017] puts it). By these means, they are to discover new horizons of science and new practical applications of the acquired knowledge, unattainable for monodisciplinary research. In this perspective, the interdisciplinarity category became a highly important keystone, a point of contact between the academia and the non-academic world, especially business.
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