This Companion provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview and critical evaluation of existing conceptualizations and new developments in innovation research. Arguing that innovation research requires inter- and trans-disciplinary explanations and methodological pluralis…
This Companion provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview and critical evaluation of existing conceptualizations and new developments in innovation research. Arguing that innovation research requires inter- and trans-disciplinary explanations and methodological pluralis…
"Opportunity Identification is a crucial entrepreneurial skill but students often struggle to come up with venture ideas that solve real problems and create substantial value. Ideate is a proven method that helps students generate, evaluate, and select the most innovative ideas.…
"This book contains a compilation of 101 individual and group activities for solving_ problems and generating ideas. Each of the 101 engaging and though-provoking activities comes complete with full facilitator notes and advice on when and how to use the activity. This is the on…
"It’s true: a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Yet that’s what we do when we spend our weekend — and neurons — reliving a workplace squabble, spend a family visit chewing over childhood issues, or spend hours beating ourselves up when someone brings one of our own long-held (b…
It's true: a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Yet that's what we do when we spend our weekend ' and neurons ' reliving a workplace squabble, spend a family visit chewing over childhood issues, or spend hours beating ourselves up when someone brings one of our own long-held (bu…
"The regularity with which the term 'solutions' is used in management speak suggests that management is largely about problem solving. To suggest that thinking creatively is a useful skill in solving a problem may be stating the obvious, but experience tells us that under pressu…
Part I. Creativity and innovation : the keys to enterprise growth and career success in the twenty-first century -- part II. The four requirements for the mind to generate creative ideas -- part III. Seven Unleashing creativity lessons from nature for creating the requirements -…
Engineers and technologists often operate from a worldview of "ones and zeros." My mission in this book is to interject the colorful world of creative thinking to help engineers and technologists learn to think and work differently. This "idea engineering" becomes the driving fo…