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...

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...

Open Innovation is a new paradigm that suggests including actors from inside as well as outside a company’s boundaries in the innovation process. Open creativity refers to the creative phase in this process. In this article we investigate on open creativity support. We conducted interviews within companies in the German ICT sector to analyze the status quo of open creativity and the tools curre...

Article history: Received 18 March 2014 Received in revised form 22 June 2014 Accepted 14 July 2014 Available online 14 August 2014 This study provides the first test of the intelligence–innovation hypothesis, which contributes to the intelligence–creativity debate in the psychology literature and to the innovation–growth debate in the economics literature. UsingU.S. state-level data the study ...

Analogical reasoning, it is commonly accepted, plays an important role in innovation and creativity. Since design often is innovative, and can be creative, the design task provides a good context for exploring the role of analogy in innovation and creativity. In the IDEAL project, we are exploring the processes of innovation and creativity in the context of conceptual (or preliminary, qualitati...

Creativity is of paramount importance to the innovation process. Therefore the findings of creativity research should be thoroughly considered in organisations where innovation processes are required. This review summarises the literature in the field of work place creativity, with special attention given to R&D environments. Current theoretical models of creativity are discussed and a literatu...

The aim of this paper is to critique and review the role of individuals and teams in idea generation as part of the overall organisational creativity and innovation process. Key objectives are to determine organisational development needs and research agendas in this area. Organisations continue to emphasise the need for increased creativity and innovation within their employees and markets. Ho...