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, jou...

This article explores the genesis, proliferation, and readership of an understudied genre religious poetry in early modern Europe. The weeping poem—a devotional literary combining elements epic narrative Petrarchan lyric that focused specifically on grief biblical figures—swept across Europe forty years around turn seventeenth century. Although this was instigated by Italian Luigi Tansillo’s 15...

Children engage with their imaginative faculties in a variety of ways as they grow and develop. Th ey play simple pretend games starting at about the age of two (Fein, 1981; Nicolich, 1977; Singer & Singer, 1990), which are then elaborated into longer pretend sequences and sometimes into ongoing relationships with imaginary companions (Taylor, 1999) and paracosms (see chapter 27). Children also...