Human creativity is personally, socially and culturally situated: creative individuals work within environments rich in personal experiences, social relationships and cultural knowledge. Computational models of creative processes typically neglect some or all of these aspects of human creativity. How can we hope to capture this richness in computational models of creativity? This paper introduc...

This study was conducted in 2016 aimed to investigate the relationship between empowering leadership, uncertainty avoidance, trust, and employee creativity with regard to interaction effects and mediating mechanism. The population consists of 205 employees from the Nomadic affairs of Fars Province. In accordance with the Cochran formula, the sample size of 134 was calculated that were participa...

We examine the relation between venture capital (VC) investments and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity around the world. We find evidence of a strong positive association between VC investments and lagged M&A activity, consistent with the hypothesis that an active M&A market provides viable exit opportunities for VC companies and therefore incentivizes them to engage in more deals. We als...

Sir Peter Barter, with notes by Edward P. Wolfers, describes the creative and community work of Robert Banasi Madang Art Maniacs (MAM) during COVID-19 pandemic. MAM’s public art production has endeavoured to raise awareness about pandemic practices promote health in Madang, capital Province Papua New Guinea, nearby rural communities.

It is known that creative industries have informal activities and occupations inherent to their nature, some of which cause different effects on the economy. Given this fact, present work's primary goal identify elements, causes, informality in sector utilizing a legalist approach, Austrian Economics, symbolic capital. The main methodology bibliographic review its presence Creative Economy. was...

Our experience of past problems can offer valuable insights into the solution of current problems, though since novel problems are not merely re-occurrences of those we have seen before, their solutions require us to integrate multiple sources of inspiration into a single, composite whole. The degree to which the seams of these patchwork solutions are evident to an end-user offers an inverse me...

This paper highlights the difficulties intrinsic to gauging a student’’s affective state. We argue that there is a need to further support the emotional experiences of students within settings such as the classroom. Findings from our first study illustrate the inherent difficulties of understanding the emotional experiences of students within the classroom context. For example, we identify low ...

Creative domains such as art and music have distinct properties, not only in terms of the structure of the artefacts produced by in terms of their cultural dynamics and relation to adaptive functions. A number of theories have examined the possibility of functionless cultural domains emerging through a runaway evolutionary process. This includes models in which engaging in creative domains is a...

this paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. the paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...