Compromise through Competition： A More Widely Applicable Approach

The article by Jinghai Li in this issue of Engineering[1] calls for a new approach to how we organize science and technology （S＆T）, given that we are encountering more challenges than solutions. His paper is a plea and a demand for more transdisciplinary ap- proaches to solving real-world, complex challenges, in the light of the reductionist approach that results in disciplines splintering into ever tighter groupings. His own approach of using mesoscale considerations to link the microscale and macroscale has been demonstrably successful over many years.