Based on an in-depth case study of Creative City Governance, a government reform program in South Korea's Seoul Metropolitan Government, the author explores the following research questions: 1) How does senior managers' transformational leadership affect an innovation-focused and performance-driven culture within local government? 2) How does a climate that nurtures creativity (i.e., recognitio...

This paper introduces a framework that aims to support the design and development of mobile services. The traditional innovation process and its supporting instruments in form of creativity tools, acceptance research and user-generated content analysis are screened for potentials for improvement. The result is a reshaped innovation process where acceptance research and usergenerated content ana...

More and more organizations structure their innovation projects around functionally diverse teams. Why are some diverse teams more innovative than others? In my dissertation research, I investigate how cognitive diversity, conflict, and creativity affect the success of functionally-diverse innovation teams. Some research points to the importance of cognitive diversity for stimulating group crea...

Creativity and innovation drive competitiveness in the 21st century enterprises. Dynamic hyper-intensive competitive markets demand widespread innovations from all employees in most global enterprises. Leaders influence and set the contextual environments under which their employees express creativity. This paper will examine how different leadership models relate with individual creativity. It...

Creativity in Product Innovation describes a remarkable new technique for improving the creativity process in product design. Certain “regularities” in product development are identifiable, objectively verifiable and consistent for almost any kind of product. These regularities are described by the authors as “Creativity Templates.” This book describes the theory and implementation of these Tem...

In this paper we present an approach based on the view that creativity is essentially determined by social evaluation and that any computational modelling of creativity needs to account for this. Directions for modelling creative social systems are suggested based on results of computational social simulations of creativity and innovation.

In the last decades, large organizations have paid more attention to the topics such as creativity and innovation in organizational level because of changes and evolutions in the increasing competition field and unreliable environmental conditions. This research investigates the influence of emotional intelligence on the organizational innovation. This research is considered application-oriente...

Requirements engineering (RE) techniques that promote creativity can lead to product innovation and business competitiveness. To investigate the role of i∗ in creative RE, we report a study involving nine analysts who generate creative requirements for the meeting scheduler in a transformational way. Our results reveal the interdependency of exploratory creativity and transformational creativit...

This paper establishes an ontology of creativity and innovation processes. A comprehensive review was undertaken describing the four key perspectives of creativity research, namely the creative-output, -process, -person and -environment. The focus of this review is based around the metrics for measuring creativity from each of the above perspectives. These metrics are drawn together in a common...