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Actually if you read carefully, their objective is to nurture breakthrough technologies and innovations which cut across the multi-disciplines of science.
The development of paradigm shifts requires a very deep understanding of the sciences from the grass-roots upwards. Very few have this depth and breadth of knowledge in any one discipline, let alone across the board.
Anyone can think outside the dots .. its not the exclusive domain of the 'intellectually endowed'. But there's a very big difference between a leader in a given field thinking outside the dots, and a novice doing the same. The difference is what they're looking for.
Being able to sustain that mode of operation, over a period of 100 years, requires a paradigm shift in technology development business models, right up front. (Which is why their initial RFI called for exactly this …).
Even though I cynically said … "The winner will have to be best buddies with the Chairman of the Assessment Committee." There may actually be enough 'wiggle' space, or subtle flaws in theoretical assumptions in present day science, to move forward and generate the breakthroughs they're interested in.
Only the experts in those fields are likely to identify flaws (if there are any).
Cheers
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