A key to understanding why School is what it is lies in recognizing a systematic tendency to deform ideas in specific ways in order to make them fit into a pedagogical framework. One of these deformations is described here as " disempowering ideas. " The insight leads to a new direction for innovation in education: re-empowering the disempowered ideas. Doing so is not easy: it needs a new epist...

Despite the pervasive use of electronic media for idea generation and idea sharing, the extent and quality of idea integration and use is relatively understudied. Idea integration and use depends on information saliency but little is known about how idea integration may be facilitated by user interface features that influence information saliency. This paper examines the effect of idea visibili...

Many business publications state that no idea is a bad idea, that even if the idea is, at first glance, not helpful, there are usually some aspects of this idea which are helpful Usually, this statement is based on the experience of the author, and it is given without any theoretical explanation. In this paper, we provide a theoretical explanation for this statement. 1 No Idea Is a Bad Idea Man...

Idea Communities allow their users to contribute to a company’s innovation activities by sharing their ideas with the Community. These ideas are then improved according to the Mass-Collaboration principle. Due to the high diversity among the participants, a shared understanding and a common goal is hard to develop in a mass collaboration environment. According to Bounded Ideation Theo...

The generation of ideas and the subsequent promotion implementation these are important for organizational performance. Unfortunately, however, do not always turn into innovations. Based on ambidexterity theory leadership innovation, we argue that both employee idea relationship between one hand realization other, could benefit from leaders who display opening (fostering exploration) closing be...

This paper deals with state-of-the-art novel ideas in high level visualization, understanding and interpretation of 3D objects from 2D images. A new strategy using parallel pattern representation and matching is presented, which is aimed at learning, representing, visualizing, and interpreting 2D line drawings as 3D objects with only very few learning samples. The conventional linear combinatio...