Measuring Creativity for Innovation Management

Measuring Creativity for Innovation Management

Identifying the extent and nature of the creativity of new products is a key for innovation management. The revised Creative Solution Diagnosis Scale (CSDS) is a 27-item scale based on a theoretical model of functional creativity, consisting of five main criteria: Relevance & Effectiveness, Problematization, Propulsion, Elegance and Genesis. The CSDS offers potential for differentiated assessme...

Introduction to Knowledge Management for Creativity and Innovation Minitrack

Measuring Creativity

One might logically ask, why measure creativity? Measuring creativity may be useful for hiring university faculty or corporate executives. For example, when admitting students to graduate research in Ph.D. programs academia should have some objective grounds that these students will be productive scholars. It may also be useful in research situations where one is attempting to determine what ca...

The Role of Leadership and Management in Organizational Innovation and Creativity

Goals: In today’s organizational world, Creative Directors, Creative Organizations and Creative Workers are the sides of the creative triangle which do not get the meaning without any creativity or innovation. The appropriate organizational structure and support and encouragement of leaders and managers are two essential elements in creativity, and contexts and conditions of creativity is ...

Promoting creativity and innovation

Innovative biotechnologists are expected to make major contributions as we emerge from the current period of economic uncertainty. This however is against the backdrop of the vast majority of university students as well as employees in the bioscience industries having received little or no training in techniques that could greatly enhance their creative and innovative potential. Here, we presen...