00991nas a2200121   4500008004100000022001400041245003700055210003700092260004200129520064300171100001900814856003600833       2009                        eng d  a1913-610200aCollaborating Across Disciplines0 aCollaborating Across Disciplines  aOttawabTalent First Networkc07/20093 aAnecdotal evidence suggests that truly innovative ideas and successful adaptation to market conditions comes from collaboration with people across traditionally demarcated fields of study. In science, economics, and business, it is new ideas that are imported from other realms that are most successful in affecting change.

The Treehouse Group is a Toronto-based collective of thinkers from a wide variety of backgrounds that seek to subvert the traditional notion of what constitutes a conference or a networking opportunity by using a wide variety of brainstorming techniques and cross-disciplinary activities to engage participants.1 aWilson, Joseph  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/267