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Not all knowledge is generated through science.  All of us generate knowledge all the time in a variety of ways.  Yet science has proven itself over centuries to be the most productive vehicle for knowledge generation (i.e. it produces more useful and interesting new knowledge in a shorter timeframe than any other known way of generating knowledge).

The scientific productiveness features are those features that are part of the scientific way of producing new knowledge that enable this productiveness.  They facilitate the fact that science has proven itself to be the most effective vehicle for knowedge generation.

This gives us the basic ingredients to use in providing a service that integrate across the borders of the sciences in a coherent way without compromising the productiveness of science.  In addition to these productiveness features there are also scientific capability features which are common for all branches of science.

Together the scientific productiveness features and the scientific capability features form the basis for the spectacular success of science in knowledge generation.  By understanding what they are and how they feature in the environment you serve with your scientific work, you can improve your capability and the service you offer significantly.  These two sets of features are valid for all the branches of science, and engaging them appropriately therefore serves as the backbone for coherent cross-disciplinary scientific work.

Van Thinking provides an ebook describing the background information about these features and what they are in more detail.  Their online course in scientific thinking is also based on this approach.

It is almost like saying you need to know which building blocks are best,  and you also need to know how to best build with them in order to be the best builder.