Tools for Innovation

✍ Scribed by Arthur B Markman, Kristin L. Wood

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is widely known that innovation is crucial to sustain success in business, government, and engineering. But capturing the effective means of fostering innovation remains elusive. How can organizations actively promote innovation, which arises from a complex combination of cognition and domain expertise? Researchers across an array of fields are studying innovation, with exciting new findings suggesting that science is beginning to understand how it can be cultivated. It is now more important than ever for seemingly distant fields to share conclusions and, in concert, translate them into viable applications. In this unique and exciting collaboration, engineers, cognitive scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, and marketers explore the practical methods that support innovation and creative design, from different ways of thinking and conceptualizing to computer-based tools. The authors present research on processes as well as on the evaluation of existing methods. Their lessons drawn are at the forefront of the interdisciplinary movement to use science to help organizations thrive.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 14
1. The Cognitive Science of Innovation Tools......Page 18
2. On ‘‘Out-of-the-Box’’ Thinking in Creativity......Page 38
3. ‘‘Putting Blinkers on a Blind Man’’: Providing Cognitive Support for Creative Processes with Environmental Cues......Page 63
4. Thinking with Sketches......Page 90
5. Supporting Innovation by Promoting Analogical Reasoning......Page 100
6. Constraints and Consumer Creativity......Page 119
7. The Development and Evaluation of Tools for Creativity......Page 143
8. ConceptNets for Flexible Access to Knowledge......Page 168
9. Innovation Through tRaNsFoRmAtIoNaL Design......Page 186
10. Introduction of Design Enabling Tools: Development, Validation, and Lessons Learned......Page 210
11. Supporting Innovative Construction of Explanatory Scientific Models......Page 231
B......Page 250
C......Page 251
E......Page 252
I......Page 253
M......Page 254
R......Page 255
U......Page 256
W......Page 257