The Efficient Method for Creating Ideas; Innovators Marketplace as Role-based Game

Innovation does not mean only creating the new product or services. It is necessary to work out the strategy to lead innovations. Innovators Market Game is a method for creating new ideas by combining existent ideas. In this study, we propose the new way of creating ideas; Rolebased Innovators Market Game. In the game, players take part in the role selected from the real world. For example, journalists, government, doctors and so on. Players create the ideas based on their own roles through the communications with other players. Considering the relations among other roles, players think of ideas strategically. Generally, creating new ideas is highly hard work. By introducing the factor of game, players can create ideas efficiently. The strict rules, acting roles and communication make players more creative and imaginative. Players can discover and solve the practical problems, and improve their creative and imaginative skills through this activity.