Arizona State University is calling for universities worldwide to adopt a more open model of research to address the growing urgency of global issues like climate change.

Peter Schlosser, the director of ASU's Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, says that hundreds of years ago, universities were originally intended to bring different fields of study together in order to create a more complete understanding of the world, which is similar to the open collaboration that ASU is proposing.

Over time, Schlosser says, universities became more focused on the progress of separate fields, which has led to the total separation of fields, isolating communities from each other and from knowledge that would be more useful if it was shared.

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