We study the effect of new product introduction on firm value. Using a unique sample on mobile phone handset introduction by 16 major handset manufacturers over 10 years, we distinguish between imitative product introduction and truly innovative product introduction. We find that while most product introduction is imitative, both types of innovation increase firm value. However, truly innovativ...

Computational models of creative design typically adopt a specific mechanism and apply that mechanism to a design space to demonstrate its potential for generating creative designs. For example, some computational models use analogy as a reasoning mechanism for developing novel designs from previous designs and others use evolutionary algorithms as a way of searching the design space to get to ...

Creativity is often associated with surprise, novelty, usefulness and value. These characteristics do not assist in the development of a model for intelligent systems to achieve creative behaviour, since they are characteristics that help identify when something or someone has been creative, as post-facto evaluation. Rather, models of creative behaviour for intelligent systems draw on process m...

ABSTRACT We study two quick-service restaurant (QSR) chains based on regional ethnic foods that were launched in China and India. The products these QSR ventures offered had hitherto been sold by fragmented street vendors who typically operated single outlets. Inspired the successful business models of international brands, entrepreneurs developed to popularize their chosen multiple new regions...

muslim scholars and islamic official institutions consider human cloning as opposing religious doctrine, and forbidden. their ideas are based upon some theological and juridical arguments, including: posing a challenge to the creative power of god, breaking the tradition of marriage, breaking the tradition of diversity in creatures or species, making changes in divine creatures, game with creat...

most contemporary clinical reasoning tests typically assess non-automatic thinking. therefore, a test is needed to measure automatic reasoning or pattern recognition, which has been largely neglected in clinical reasoning tests. the puzzle test (pt) is dedicated to assess automatic clinical reasoning in routine situations. this test has been introduced first in 2009 by monajemi et al in the oly...

A visual reasoning ability is a fundamental attribute in a creative design process. This research investigates how the visual reasoning ability is measured and explained through experiment and visual reasoning model. The experiments consist of four visual reasoning tasks such as missing view problem, constructive perception task, plan-perspective view matching task, and emergent shape task. We ...