Technology for Creativity and Innovation: Tools, Techniques and Applications

✍ Scribed by Anabela Mesquita

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 426
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is widely accepted that organizations and individuals must be innovative and continually create new knowledge and ideas to deal with rapid change. Innovation plays an important role in not only the development of new business, process and products, but also in competitiveness and success of any organization.Technology for Creativity and Innovation: Tools, Techniques and Applications provides empirical research findings and best practices on creativity and innovation in business, organizational, and social environments. It is written for educators, academics and professionals who want to improve their understanding of creativity and innovation as well as the role technology has in shaping this discipline.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
Dedication......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 15
Preface......Page 17
Acknowledgment......Page 25
A Benchmarking Study on Organizational Creativity Practices in High Technology Industries......Page 28
Integrating Technology with the Creative Design Process......Page 53
Problem-Solving Style, Problem Complexity and Knowledge Generation......Page 79
Towards a Theoretical Framework for Creative Participation......Page 111
Cultivating Innovation through Social Relationships......Page 131
Methods against Methods......Page 148
Methods to Improve Creativity and Innovation......Page 163
An Interdisciplinary Workshop for Business-Idea Generation......Page 183
The Structure of Idea Generation Techniques......Page 210
Experience with Self-Guiding Group Support Systems for Creative Problem Solving Tasks......Page 230
The OLC Questionnaire......Page 243
Knowledge Management and Innovation......Page 264
Exploring Alternative Assessments to Support Digital storytelling for Creative Thinking in Primary School Classrooms......Page 295
Creative Management, Technology and the BBC......Page 312

Sustainable Blended-Learning in HEI......Page 329
The Opportunities and Challenges of Technology Driven Creative Collaborations......Page 352
Compilation of References......Page 370
About the Contributors......Page 411
Index......Page 419