This paper gives an account of the authors’ experience of running a series of interdisciplinary workshops entitled “Exploring the Internet of Things, Creativity and Learning”, held between September 2012 and June 2013. The workshop series was inspired by the possibility that innovation in the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) will arise from the creativity of interdisciplinary communities of people wh...

the present study aims to investigate the association between emotional-functional evelopment and formation of creative thinking among children of 4-6 years old in mashhad city. to do this, 80 children and their mothers were selected from preschools of mashhad city based on cluster sampling method.  the level of creativity among children was measured through torrance test of critical thinking (...

It is well acknowledged that innovation is a key success factor in mobile service domain. Having creative ideas is the first critical step in the innovation process. Many studies suggest that customers are a valuable source of creative ideas. However, the literature also shows that adults may be constrained by existing technology frames, which are known to hinder creativity. Instead young child...

The aim of this research was to compare the influence of the use of Information Technology (IT) on creative thinking of students of computer (software branch) and education (primary school education) in Islamic Azad University of Zanjan. The population included all the male and female students of software engineering and primary school education during the semester of 90-91, amounting to 100 pa...

Received: 13 August 2008 Accepted: 13 September 2008 Abstract This paper suggests ways to facilitate creativity and innovation in software development. The paper applies four perspectives – Product, Project, Process, and People – to identify an outlook for software innovation. The paper then describes a new facility – Software Innovation Research Lab (SIRL) – and a new method concept for softwa...

The productivity enhancing capability of cities is widely noted. Yet, while urban innovative capacity is often assumed to arise due to the close proximity of diverse elements within cities, little empirical research has attempted to associate population density with urban innovation. Thus, this research investigates how the density of a specific class of workers, the " creative class " , affect...

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...