Whilst the application of BIM continues to be acknowledged and prevailing, design practitioners and academics find themselves in a paradox with an ongoing discussion on the impact of BIM tools on design creativity and innovation. Literature suggests that BIM tools can hinder design creativity due to: parametric limitations ; interoperability; and the demand for detailed information at prelimina...

Nowadays, society and organizations face an accelerated innovation that requires of professionals with new skills and attitudes, especially those related to collective creativity. However, educational environments are slowly integrating emerging paradigms limiting the contribution to the development of key skills related to innovation. Multiple investigations claim that teachers have conservati...

According to Wikipedia creativity is “a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or problem solutions, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts”. Creativity towards innovation in product development settings are often used interchangeably. Innovation and creative product development refer to completely new as well as significantly improv...

 برای دانشجویان جوانی که پا در عرصه پژوهش می‌گذارند، آشنایی با این دنیا و رمز و رازهای آن از اهمیت شایان توجهی برخوردار می‌باشد. از همین رو، در یک سلسله از سخنان سردبیری به هم پیوسته، سعی می‌کنم تا درباره دنیای پژوهش و رمز و رازهای آن، مطالبی را تقدیم خوانندگان و نویسندگان فرهیخته مجله دانشگاه نمایم. در اولین مقاله به مهم‌ترین راز پژوهش، یعنی خلاقیت و نوآوری [1] می‌پردازم. خلاقیت یک زمینه بسیا...

There is currently a strong belief in Information and Communication Technologies’ (ICT) ability to enable innovation. However, there is little knowledge about the creative processes that may occur through the mediation of ICT and consequently lead to innovation. Prior studies have shown that creativity is central when studying innovation and that creativity can be seen as a social process. Sinc...

This question has always been put forward in the mind of curious people why some countries have developed termed in spite of very few natural resources and facilities while other countries have not developed in spite of having more suitable resources and facilities. Various factors such as economy, culture, geography, etc. are perhaps a background to answer this question, but there is a more im...

IT–endowed collaboration within and between groups will catalyze creativity, which in turn will facilitate multidisciplinary innovation and reduce barriers and inefficiencies among people working together. This article describes the challenges of supporting creativity and innovation through e-collaboration, and summarizes the papers that were accepted for a special issue of the International Jo...

Highlighting the implications of transformational leadership, the study examines the role of transformational leadership in predicting employee creativity. The study also investigates the mediating role of innovation climate and moderating role of creative self-efficacy. A study was carried out on a sample included a dyad of 372 employees and their immediate supervisors. The findings indicate t...

Despite significant research in open innovation, much less is known about why and how collective creativity emerges in open source scientific communities, as relatively little is known about organizing processes in such cyber-enabled Global Participatory Science (GPS) communities. One of the significant problems in understanding emergence of innovation involves how GPS communities govern and co...