Invention and Innovation as Creative Problem-Solving Activities

Beckenbach, Frank; Daskalakis, Maria

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“…Reference [44] suggests that the novelty creation process is composed of two stages, called "invention" and "innovation". On one hand, invention is associated with the creation of a conceptual novelty (i.e., the creation of new ideas or concepts to be applied in a specific business context).…”

Section: The Effects Of Absorptive Capacity On the Firm's Green Produmentioning

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Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity as Complementary Drivers of Green Product and Process Innovation Performance

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Nowadays, companies need to absorb new knowledge from external sources to grasp environmental issues. However, the internal mechanisms through which external knowledge is turned into green innovations remain scarcely addressed. Hence, this paper aims to investigate the relationships between the two dimensions of absorptive capacity (potential and realized) with green products and process innovation performance. This study contributes to the literature by disentangling how companies need to acquire, assimilate, transform and exploit external environmental knowledge to develop green innovations. To this aim, this empirical study is based on a sample shaped by 112 firms belonging to the Spanish automotive components manufacturing sector. The results provide evidence to show that potential and realized absorptive capacities are positively related to both green product innovation performance and green process innovation performance.

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Section: The Effects Of Absorptive Capacity On the Firm's Green Produmentioning

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Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity as Complementary Drivers of Green Product and Process Innovation Performance

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“…According to Amabile, Hadley, and Kramer (2002), the likelihood of creative thinking under time pressure is high when people can focus on one activity without disturbance and when they "feel as if they are on a mission" (p. 6). Second, the workshop was designed to capture the participants' immediate responses to the design problem according to their cognitive tendency before other personality traits such as patience and steadfastness could come into play as confounding factors because patience and steadfastness are important personality traits for creative activity (Beckenbach & Daskalakis, 2013;Selby, Shaw, & Houtz, 2005). Third, the short duration of each phase was necessary to capture the participants own response to the design problem by minimizing their opportunity to wander around and look at other participants' ideas.…”

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Analyzing Individual Differences in Creative Performance: A Case Study on the Combinational Ideation Method in the Interior Design Process

Suh

Cho

2018

Journal of Interior Design

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Research on creative performance indicates that a combination of the primary sources such as known concepts and existing ideas plays an important role in the generation of new ideas. Although studies show a link between the combinational approach to ideation and creativity, how individual differences in cognitive styles are related to this approach is not well understood. This exploratory study examines the domain‐specific relationship between individuals’ cognitive styles and improvement of creative performance within the structured combinational ideation process where mixing various ideas is encouraged. Fifty interior design students enrolled in the second year of an interior design program at a Midwestern university participated in this study. The workshop designed for this study was structured in the following stages: initial design (ID) + the combinational ideation process (the variation process [VP] + the combination process [CP]) + final design (FD). The participants’ creative performance was measured at the ID and the FD phases by three experts. Findings indicated that intuitive individuals generally showed the highest creativity in the ID phase, but they showed a decrease of creativity in the FD, implying that a structured combinational ideation method might not be the best method for intuitive individuals. In contrast, individuals possessing an adaptive and an analytical information processing style showed an increase of creativity in the FD after completing the structured combinational ideation process, suggesting that students with a nonintuitive cognitive style benefit most from this method. The result of this research will provide design educators with meaningful insight into the instruction methods that take students’ cognitive styles into consideration, especially in helping nonintuitive students who struggle in the ideation process.

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“…It has been widely published that innovators identify a problem and then attempt to solve it creatively by verifying sources of information and having the space necessary for the process to take place [8]. Inter-organisational and social networks for innovation and product development have emerged from the dynamic nature of knowledge creation and the solution of problems as socially embedded processes [9]; [10].…”

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perFECT interaction: Facilitating evaluation of collaborative technologies for user engagement in engineering innovation networks

Michaelides

Morton

2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

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The swift economic change in contemporary experience has seen successful organisations seek to connect more rapidly and more effectively with others in the creation of new knowledge. The last decade has seen a growing interest in online networks as a formal and informal schema for transferring and generating knowledge within product development. These networks are rooted in the nature of knowledge creation as a socially embedded process. Collaborative technologies have been widely accepted and adopted as platforms facilitating innovation in the interactions of contemporary networks, and this paper seeks to develop an evaluation schema and employ it to examine how such interaction is facilitated through the medium of Web 2.0 technologies in an engineering network. The contribution of this research to theory and innovation technology practice will be to further the understanding of the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on engineering innovation networks.

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Invention and Innovation as Creative Problem-Solving Activities

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity as Complementary Drivers of Green Product and Process Innovation Performance

Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity as Complementary Drivers of Green Product and Process Innovation Performance

Analyzing Individual Differences in Creative Performance: A Case Study on the Combinational Ideation Method in the Interior Design Process

perFECT interaction: Facilitating evaluation of collaborative technologies for user engagement in engineering innovation networks

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