Distinct and combined effects of disciplinary composition and methodological support on problem solving in groups

Schöfer, Malte; Maranzana, Nicolas; Aoussat, Améziane; Bersano, Giacomo; Buisine, Stéphanie

doi:10.1111/caim.12258

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“…Biologists potentially constitute both the greatest asset and the greatest challenge of biomimetics. It has always been seen in interdisciplinary fields that the benefits of diversity comes with strong barriers in terms of communication and understanding between actors (Schöfer 2015;Schöfer et al 2018). In the case of biomimetic design, a quick review of the existing tools and processes raises the following question: where are biologists?…”

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Biomimetics, where are the biologists?

Graeff

Maranzana

Aoussat

2019

Journal of Engineering Design

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Engineering design, as the science framing the practice of design through the elaboration of tools and processes, is constantly evolving towards new innovative strategies. To thrive in their extremely competitive environment, it appears that both industrial and natural worlds are highly dependent on innovation, optimisation and selection. These commonalities have led designers to look to living beings for inspiration. This innovation strategy, referred to as biomimetics, isn't a new approach but its methodological aspects are still under development. This article deals with biologists' contribution throughout the biomimetic design process. After introducing the context and the experimental protocol, we investigated the impact of possessing a background in biology during the practice of biomimetics and compared our findings with experts' opinion. The main idea of this article is to show that to forego the integration of biologists is highly restrictive and may be one of the reasons explaining the difficulties of implementing biomimetics in the industrial context. Hence, this article argues for a new methodological framework taking into account biologists, allowing biomimetic teams to become truly interdisciplinary.

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“…Biomimetic design teams that directly include a biological expertise (i.e. an actor from natural sciences) may be the only coherent way to consider biomimetic as a long-term design strategy (Lenau 2009;Snell-Rood 2016;Schöfer et al 2018;Chirazi et al 2019).…”

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Biomimetics, where are the biologists?

Graeff

Maranzana

Aoussat

2019

Journal of Engineering Design

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“…This period is closely associated with the theme 'TRIZ'. Three special issues of this period are dedicated solely to TRIZ (see Table A1 in the Appendix), which is a frequently reoccurring topic throughout CIM's history; for example, it was recently addressed by Schöfer, Maranzana, Aoussat, Bersano, and Buisine (2018). Other nearby located themes involve 'change', constituting a domain of specific relevance to organizational practitioners (e.g., Vanhaverbeke & Peeters, 2005).…”

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More than a quarter century of Creativity and Innovation Management: The journal's characteristics, evolution, and a look ahead

2020

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When this journal was founded in 1992 by Tudor Rickards and Susan Moger, there was no academic outlet available that addressed issues at the intersection of creativity and innovation. From zero to 1,163 records, from the new kid on the block to one of the leading journals in creativity and innovation management has been quite a journey, and we would like to reflect on the past 28 years and the intellectual and conceptual structure of Creativity and Innovation Management (CIM). Specifically, we highlight milestones and influential articles, identify how key journal characteristics evolved, outline the (co‐)authorship structure, and finally, map the thematic landscape of CIM by means of a text‐mining analysis. This study represents the first systematic and comprehensive assessment of the journal's published body of knowledge and helps to understand the journal's influence on the creativity and innovation management community. We conclude by discussing future topics and paths of the journal as well as limitations of our approach.

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“…However, even if the potentialities of biology in design are well established, biologists remain mainly excluded of the design practice. Nonetheless, several articles have been published with the objective of exposing the assets that are biologists in biomimetics (Graeff et al, 2018a;Snell-Rood, 2016), their inputs during creativity steps (Schöfer, 2015), innovative problem-solving approach (Schöfer et al, 2018), etc. One of our initial reflection on the articles dealing with biomimetic process or tools is that the required profiles of the practitioners remain most of the time unspecified.…”

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Engineers’ and Biologists’ Roles during Biomimetic Design Processes, Towards a Methodological Symbiosis

Graeff¹,

Maranzana²,

Aoussat³

2019

Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Des.

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The strength of biomimetics comes from its ability to draw from life mechanisms and strategies to design innovative solutions. In spite of recent methodological progresses, more specifically on tools and processes, biomimetics' implementation still faces strong difficulties. Among other things, design teams have a hard time finding and selecting relevant biological strategies. Facing these challenges, we consider an alternative, yet well recognized, approach: the integration of profiles having a training in natural science within biomimetic design teams. As biologists aren't used to work in design teams, there is a need for a process actually guiding their practice in biomimetics and determining the way they will interact with the “traditional” design team. After studying the literature and asking for experts' opinion on the matter, we introduced a biomimetic design process considering this new profile as an integral part of biomimetic design teams. With the final goal of making biomimetics implementable, this proposed theoretical process is currently tested in both a student and an industrial project in order to optimize our methodological contribution with practical feedbacks.

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Distinct and combined effects of disciplinary composition and methodological support on problem solving in groups

Cited by 10 publications

References 52 publications

Biomimetics, where are the biologists?

Biomimetics, where are the biologists?

More than a quarter century of Creativity and Innovation Management: The journal's characteristics, evolution, and a look ahead

Engineers’ and Biologists’ Roles during Biomimetic Design Processes, Towards a Methodological Symbiosis

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