cross-pollination

That means you get cross-pollination (or -contamination), which offers a chance to change those people's minds.

Much of it is cross-pollination from aviation safety, where use of checklists has been standard procedure for a long time.

But even that's preferable to acquisition, because it allows cross-pollination of ideas from two separate entities.

This article[1] implies that there's a lot of cross-pollination with regard to computer graphics research and technology within the movie/VFX industry.

The simple reason is that they were at the same stage of development and there is cross-pollination of ideas and people moving.

It is somewhat disappointing to see people constantly complain about the cross-pollination of ideas.

Yes, the field can be insular, yes, there's benefit from cross-pollination from other disciplines, but the field is vast, and it's reach is still expanding.

It's easy to have a very narrow view of just the project you're working on, so you lose some of the cross-pollination of ideas between projects.

If designed well, cross-pollination of ideas between fields may multiply.

I'm mainly interested in co-working spaces for cross-pollination of ideas, and friendly challenges.

And in a multidisciplinary team, standups help with cross-pollination.

It's a more significant than cross-pollination to me.

(First in the US, at least; there may have been people in the East playing with this as well, but there was very little cross-pollination at this time.) The big difference between the Western and Eastern animation traditions, in my mind, comes from different decisions in how to best allocate "pencil mileage".