ABSTRACT. The article addresses the nexus of power, knowledge and transformation in a discourse analytical perspective. Disciplinary rationalizations and reconstructions of transformation and knowledge creation are the starting point for potentials of multiperspectivity within the paradigm of an integrated Diversity-Innovation and Development Research agenda in academia and Higher Education. Cross Sector Innovation and sustainability in science, transdisciplinary knowledge production are discussed as future strategies of open research and innovation in the ecosystem economy. The article outlines conditions, potentials and structures of a research agenda of multiperspectivity and of Diversity Innovation Research. pp. 125–142

Keywords: Diversity Innovation Research; Development Research; Cross Sector Innovation; Sustainability in Science; Disciplinarity, Inter- and Transdisciplinarity; Research Agenda of Multiperspectivity; Ecosystem Economy