The ‘Principal Principle’ states, roughly, that one’s subjective probability for a proposition should conform to one’s beliefs about that proposition’s objective chance of coming true. David Lewis has argued (i) that this principle provides the defining role for chance; (ii) that it conflicts with his reductionist thesis of Humean supervenience, and so must be replaced by an amended version tha...

As the existence of creativity is a judgment, relative to personal or group norms it is helpful to understand what factors inform that judgment. Creativity can be assessed using either the designed product or the design process. Judging the process is much more problematic than judging the product. Besemer’s Creative Product Semantic Scale for product assessment provides three dimensions, with ...

Until now, international entrepreneurship has mainly used stage theory, institutional theory, transaction cost economics and the resource-based view to explain or describe the internationalization of SMEs in transition economy context. Following recent literature we contend that these approaches are highlighting interesting elements of decision processes for internationalization, but are not ye...

We present a semantic map of words related with creativity. The aim is to empirically derive terms which can be used to rate processes or products of computational creativity. The words in the map are based on association studies performed by human subjects and augmented with words derived from the literature (based on human raters). The words are used in a card sorting study to investigate the...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is twofold: to propose a new theoretical framework to interpret organizational creativity as a process of situated and distributed cognition in a sense-making perspective; and to identify the system of tools which influences this process. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis developed in the paper is theoretical, as it is rooted in a rich literature review ...

RE is well-recognised as a creative problem solving activity by the systems development community. However, while substantial research has been conducted and knowledge gained about creativity in the general psychology of problem solving, creativity as it applies to RE remains a relatively unexplored area one that has neither been comprehensively studied, nor highly recognised, as a research top...

There are at least three core principles that define the chance role: (1) the Principal Principle, (2) the Basic Chance Principle, and (3) the Humean Principle. These principles seem mutually incompatible. At least, no extant account of chance meets more than one of them. I offer an account of chance which meets all three: L*-chance. So the good news is that L*-chance meets (1)–(3). The bad new...

Although product dissection is a widely adopted tool in engineering academia and industry, researchers have just begun to explore how dissection affects creativity in design and little research to date has explored how variations in dissection activities affect creativity. Therefore, in this paper we present a controlled experiment developed to understand how the type and number of products dis...

Recent studies have argued the increasing complexity of engineering practice brings challenges to engineers. Creativity has been thought as one necessary element in engineering education. And to let students work with project work has been regarded as a good strategy of developing creativity. However, the literature shows studies on engineering education, most previous efforts take a departure ...