In a typical brainstorming method, criticism must be withheld for creative ideation. We envisage a web-based system that is designed to avoid possible negative influences of, and make good use of, critical thinking to generate creative ideas. To investigate its plausibility, we developed a system in which people participate collectively in a sequence of processes including generating, criticizi...

Generating new, creative, and innovative ideas in the early stages of design process is crucial for developing better original products. Human designers may become too attached to specific ideas, preventing them from generating new concepts achieving ideal designs. To come up with a designer needs have creative mind, as well knowledge, experience, talent. Verbal, written, visual sources inspira...

We build a general equilibrium model where growth is driven by new ideas that can have varying degrees of complementarity with previous innovations. The model links micro-level complementarities with the aggregate value of intangible capital and provides a new mapping between measures of knowledge accumulation found in patent data and aggregate TFP growth. We show how to measure the degree of c...

According to the honing theory of creativity, creative thought works not on individually considered, discrete, predefined representations but on a contextually-elicited amalgam of items which exist in a state of potentiality and may not be readily separable. This leads to the prediction that analogy making proceeds not by mapping correspondences from candidate sources to target, as predicted by...

Generating and identifying promising ideas represent important challenges for any Enterprise that is focused on knowledge-intensive activities. The generation of new ideas, especially high-quality creative ideas, is vital to business success. Brainstorming is a didactic method that can be exploited to sustain the development of high order skills considered fundamental to foster innovation. On t...

Since creative individuals invest in unproven ideas at the expense of propagating proven ones, excess creativity can be detrimental to society; moreover, some individuals benefit from creativity without being creative themselves by copying creators. This paper builds on previous studies of how societies evolve faster by tempering the novelty-generating effects of creativity with the novelty-pre...