extended abstract: introduction creative city is a place with a strong flourish of arts and culture, creativity and innovation with four scenarios of creative human capital, quality of life, innovation and investment in social in order to use of sustainable development indicators. the aim of this study is an analysis of the relationship between sustainable development indicators and criteria of...

Creativity and effective problem solving are key challenges in all business environments. In recent years, the new area of Computer Aided Creativity (CAC) has become an innovative means for supporting creativity and several tools emerged on the market. However, most of them fall short in actively supporting groups in being more creative. This paper presents CreativeGroup, a groupware tool for c...

Considerable research shows that positive affect improves performance on creative tasks and negative affect improves performance on analytic tasks. The present research entertained the idea that affective feelings have flexible, rather than fixed, effects on cognitive performance. Consistent with the idea that positive and negative affect signal the value of accessible processing inclinations, ...

We consider the evolution of cognition and the emergence of creative behaviour, in relation to vocal communication. We address two key questions: (i) what cognitive and/or social mechanisms have evolved that afford aspects of creativity?; (ii) has natural and/or sexual selection favoured human behaviours considered 'creative'? This entails analysis of 'creativity', an imprecise construct: compa...

this study aims to determine the relationship between innovation climate and the librarians' innovative behavior in organization of libraries, museums and documentation center of astan quds razavi, as the largest public library of iran. the methodology for this study is based on a survey research. to this purpose, the innovative behavior questionnaire and ekvall's (1996) innovation climate, dev...

When we refer to constraints in daily life we usually mean something that limits what we want to do or places boundaries around our choices. In the world of creative endeavour, the word has many interpretations. We think of constraints in creativity as both limiting and liberating. In our personal practice, they are used to impose boundaries upon the creative space we occupy and, at the same ti...

Computer tools offer enormous benefits for the early design process such as remote collaboration, advanced visualization, and the ability to run a design. However, current tools fail to support many elements of creative problem solving, inhibiting the early design process. From the literature on design theory and creativity, and extensive low-fidelity prototyping, we developed SCWID: a tool for...

Knowledge management (KM) has long been theorized as an important source of organizational competitive advantage. By developing dynamic capability of leveraging intellectual assets, an organization is expected to be able to innovatively respond to changing environment. However, the research streams of creativity and innovation on one hand and KM on the other hand have been surprisingly separate...