Purpose: of the paper aimed at motivating the legitimacy of implementation of kaizen system – the philosophy conducting to the continuous improvement of processes and products by the responsibility of all workers. Design/methodology/approach: used for the research has embraced the estimation of kaizen ideas including: connection of the kaizen with the range of duty, employee’s creativeness, pra...

This paper develops an understanding of creativity to meet the requirements of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Feist v. Rural (1991). The inclusion of creativity in originality, in a minimal degree of creativity, and in a creative spark below the level required for originality, is first established. Conditions for creativity are simultaneously derived. Clauses negative...

We examined the association of creativity with creative personality, domain expertise, non-controlling supervision, and organizational learning culture, as well as cross-level interactions in R&D organizations. Using HLM, domain expertise and non-controlling supervision were found to be positively associated with creativity. Practical implications and recommendations for further research are pr...

In the field of creativity, psychologists typically only study humans and biologists or ethologists usually focus either on animal problem solving or consider creativity to be an evolutionary adaptation. Yet a fuller application of creativity principles to animal behavior may both shed insight into animal cognition and expand current notions of creativity. We propose a framework for animal crea...

Combinatorial creativity involves the creation of new ideas (and, if realized, artefacts) by exploring atypical combinations of familiar ideas. In this paper we explore the relationship between word-level creativity and artefact-level creativity in a computational system dubbed “Gastronaut” that explores the food domain. Cookery is both a paradigm example, and a metaphor, for combinatorial crea...

One of the most contentious areas:in creativity theory is the question of domain specificity. How we conceptualize creativityas something that transcends content domains, or as something that varies depending on the domain in question has important implications for both creativity research and creativity training programs. The Amusement Park Theoretical (APT) model of creativity is the first cr...

Drawing on inspirations outside of traditional computational creativity domains, we describe a theoretical explanation of creativity in game design as a knowledge seeking process. This process, based on the practices of human game designers and an extended analogy with creativity in science, is amenable to computational realization in the form of a discovery system. Further, the model of creati...

Creativity is the generation of products and ideas that are new, valuable, and surprising. Interdisciplinary research in cognitive science makes it clear that creativity does not have to be the mysterious result of divine inspiration. Rather, we can investigate the mental processes that have creative results. This symposium will discuss creativity from a combination of disciplinary vantage poin...