The acceleration of technological evolution is intensifying the complexity and uncertainty that characterize industrial ecosystems. In this context, creativity and resilience emerge as complementary elements. The former supports the generation of disruptive solutions and ideas, while the latter enables long-term adaptation and competitiveness. Although they manifest in different forms, creativity and resilience share a common baseline toward change management and represent two complementary ways through which firms address digitalization and organizational complexity. Creativity is often the foundation of radical innovation, introducing discontinuities, new technological paradigms, and novel product-service systems. On the other hand, resilience feeds incremental innovation, oriented toward continuous improvement, efficiency, and the capacity to adapt over time. At the operational level, these two capabilities are also reflected in management practices, such as in the design of products and services, the optimization of production processes, the integration of enabling technologies in cyber-physical systems, the establishment of new business models, the planning of strategies balancing the exploration of new opportunities with the exploitation of existing competences, the consideration of innovative themes such as sustainability and circularity. In this sense, creativity and resilience are not only individual attitudes but true organizational capabilities required to sustain industrial evolution and successfully navigate technological transformation.

A key element that can bridge these two seemingly distant dimensions is multidisciplinarity. This term refers to the integration of different approaches and multiple perspectives in problem-solving while maintaining the identity of each discipline. Multidisciplinarity, therefore, does not imply the fusion of knowledge or methods, but rather their cooperation toward a
shared goal. From a theoretical standpoint, the adoption of diverse perspectives and models enriches the literature with new viewpoints and opens up unexpected and unexplored research paths. In the context of industrial research and development, multidisciplinarity translates into the ability to connect heterogeneous domains of knowledge, such as engineering, management, design, materials science, computer science, data science, organizational psychology, sustainability, cybersecurity, to tackle complex challenges that no single discipline can solve alone. This integration fosters original approaches to problem-solving, accelerates idea generation, and strengthens the adaptive capacity of organizations.

The goal of this track is to explore how multidisciplinarity is perceived and exploited within industrial contexts, and how it can contribute to fostering creativity while preserving resilience. Expected contributions could be focused on providing an answer to (not limited to) the following questions:
• How does collaboration among disciplines foster creative processes across industrial sectors?
• How does multidisciplinarity contribute to the resilience of industrial systems in the ace of crises and technological change?
• Which organizational models or leadership practices facilitate the integration of heterogeneous competences?
• Which metrics or frameworks can be used to assess the impact of multidisciplinarity on industrial innovation?

The track aims to promote dialogue between academics and practitioners on how multidisciplinarity can be strategically leveraged to address the challenges of technological
transformation and sustain industrial innovation over the long term.