objective: the aim of this study was to compare creativity in children with and without attention deficit hyperactivity ‎disorder. method: this was an analytic and descriptive study. participants were 33 children aged 7-12 years selected from a ‎child and adolescent psychiatric clinic at imam hossein hospital (tehran, iran), who were diagnosed with ‎adhd by a child and adolescent psychiatrist. ...

The European Council agreed in declaring 2009 the year of creativity and innovation.The Communication of March 2008 (European Commission, 2008a, 2) puts it simply:“Europe needs to boost its capacity for creativity and innovation for both social andeconomic reasons”. This paper aims at constructing a preliminary understanding ofresearch on creativity and the possibilities of ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among creativity, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation and creative home environment. The results of this study were as follows: First, there were significant positive relationships between the intrinsic motivation and the creative personality of the young children but there were no statistically significant relations between the intrinsic...

Computational creativity is broadly defined as the study of building software which exhibits behaviour that would be deemed creative if exhibited by a person. In more practical terms, we investigate how to engineer software that takes on some of the creative responsibility in arts and science projects which produce culturally interesting artefacts such as poems, theorems, paintings, melodies, e...

Complexity is examined in the context of Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety, and systems are shown to rapidly reach transcomputability, at which point they become uncontrollable. The circular notion of control is introduced, where control occurs “between”. Systems that are in principle beyond control are defined as unmanageable. Unmanageability is examined and shown to be potentially enrichening,...

despite wide-range of studies in the theories of the entrepreneurship field, few studies have offered a pervasive conceptual model or a general consensus of the existing theories. hence, this paper attempts to extend a comprehensive principle on entrepreneurship. in general, there are two common interpretations of the term ‘entrepreneurship’. one of the common views is schumpeterian, emphasizin...