Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous but also more vulnerable []

Does Knowledge Reuse Make a Creative Person More Creative?

In a business world that everything changes fast, continuous innovation become a key strategy for survival. Knowledge management, which deals with the effective transfer and reuse of knowledge and best practices within a firm, has been theorized as one of the facilitators of organizational innovation. Yet, no organizational innovation can be achieved without the creative performance of their in...

Online educational resources - will more information make us wiser?

Although the Internet is still primarily an information resource, there is increasing emphasis on its instructional potential. Practitioners can receive Internet-based information and education from a variety of sources around the world. However, they must learn to assess this information and to assimilate it into knowledge that will help them in their practices. They must also be given the opp...

Will Open Government make Canada's health agencies more transparent?

Making Light Forces Smaller/More Dispersible Has Benefits But Makes Them More Vulnerable and Less Capable

IN CHAPTER THREE WE EXAMINED some relatively near-term upgrades to improve the capability of light forces when placed in rapid-reaction missions, working mostly with RFPI concepts and technologies within the context of ACTDs. But what would be the impact of changing concepts—for example, making light forces smaller and more dispersed? Given that the dramatic improvements in precision-guided and...

Towards More Creative Case-

Case-based reasoning (CBR) has a great deal to offer in supporting creative design, particularly processes that rely heavily on previous design experience, such as framing the problem and evaluating design alternatives. However, most existing CBR systems are not living up to their potential. They tend to adapt and reuse old solutions in routine ways, producing robust but uninspired results. Lit...