Optimal composition of teams is an issue most enterprises face. Research conducted on this topic has identified personality as one of the key factors influencing team performance. The Big Five model, a framework for assessing personality, has standardized five personality traits, of which openness is reported to have a positive relationship with creativity. Creativity is regarded as one of the ...

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) submits these comments in response to the October 3 Federal Register notice requesting public comment on certain issues raised by the Department of Commerce Green Paper, Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy. CDT is a non-profit, public interest organization dedicated to preserving and promoting openness, innovation, and ...

Online communities and Web 2.0 are hot topics today in media as well as in consumers’ discussions. The challenge of company online communities is to support the creativity of its members. These online communities aimed for customer innovation are called innovation communities. To be able to build and manage innovation communities companies need more knowledge about the motivational factors of c...

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Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education needs re-thinking. In this paper, we explore how and what creativity and design thinking could contribute with, if included as a part of the HCI curriculum. The findings from courses where design thinking was included, indicate that design thinking contributed to increased focus on innovation and creativity, as well as prevented too early fixation on a...

This Robert E. Gross lecture is an analysis of the concept of creativity and how it relates to the practice of surgery. The questions-why surgery and creativity are closely associated; what influences creativity; why we should be concerned about it; and, finally, what rewards it brings-are discussed. In a personal note, the author describes his approach to creativity, with simplification as a c...

The componential theory of creativity is a comprehensive model of the social and psychological components necessary for an individual to produce creative work. The theory is grounded in a definition of creativity as the production of ideas or outcomes that are both novel and appropriate to some goal. In this theory, four components are necessary for any creative response: three components withi...

Creativity and knowledge are closely linked. Recent research into the relations between them highlights social and organisational aspects. However, creativity seems difficult for ordering, and creative processes often involve people with different knowledge bases, requiring the integration of different types of knowledge. While the management of creativity in organisations is seen as a complex ...

Living Labs are defined as user-centred, open innovation ecosystems based on a systematic user co-creation approach integrating research and innovation processes in real life communities and settings. In practice, Living Labs place the citizen at the centre of innovation, and have thus shown the ability to better mould the opportunities offered by new ICT concepts and solutions to the specific ...

A new theory, Asynchronous Creativity Theory (ACT), and a new model, the Media-Cognitive-Social Model of Creativity, are both proposed. The model takes a cross-disciplinary look at the effects of communication media capabilities on the traditional social and cognitive factors affecting creativity. The focus of the theory is on teams which use primarily asynchronous electronic communication medi...