2013年2月21日 星期四

The Hidden Barriers to Innovation

Given that, according to a recent innovation study, only 7% of companies are considered innovation leaders[1], what is stopping them? The latest research by IESE professors Carlos Garcia Pont and Paulo Rocha e Oliveira helps you spot if your company is under threat of stagnation by identifying the hidden obstacles preventing innovation – and how to overcome them.

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2013年2月18日 星期一

Why Great Ideas Get Rejected

By David Burkus, a professor of management at Oral Roberts University

Have you ever debuted an exciting new idea to the world only to receive a lukewarm or even highly critical response? Well, get used to it. Mounting evidence shows that we all possess an inherent bias against creativity. The good news is there's something we can do about it.

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2013年2月17日 星期日

Julie Burstein(朱莉·伯斯坦): 創造力的四堂課

John Maeda 談藝術、科技、設計如何幫助創意型領導者

David Kelley(大衛.凱利):David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence (如何建立創造力自信心?)



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2013年2月16日 星期六

Top Down Innovation Is Dead


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by Ryan Caldbeck, Contributor

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Creative Small Cities: Rethinking the Creative Economy in Place


  1. from : Urban Studies May 2009 461223-1246,

  2. Gordon Waitt
    1. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, New South Wales, 2522, Australia,g.waitt@uow.edu.au
  1. Chris Gibson
    1. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, New South Wales, 2522, Australia,cgibson@uow.edu.au

    2. Abstract
    3. Whether advocating creativity as a means to place competition or critiquing the social dislocations that stem from creativity-led urban regeneration, research about the creative economy has tended to assume that large cities are the cores of creativity. That many workers in `creative' industries choose to live and work in small urban centres is often overlooked. In this context, this article aims to recover within debates the importance of size, geographical position and class legacies in theories of creativity, economic development and urban regeneration. Using empirical materials from a case study of one Australian city—Wollongong, in New South Wales—it is argued that what might at first appear a rather parochial example illustrates the importance of rethinking the creative economy in place. Crucially, it is shown that, regardless of the numerical population size of a city, creativity is embedded in various complex, competing and intersecting place narratives fashioned by discourses of size, proximity and inherited class legacies. Only when the creative economy is conceptualised qualitatively in place is it possible to reveal how urban regeneration can operate in uncertain and sometimes surprising ways, simultaneously to estrange and involve civic leaders and residents.

2013年2月12日 星期二

Creativity: Theory, History, Practice


作者:Rob Pope
書名:Creativity: Theory, History, Practice 

Creativity: Theory, History, Practice offers important new perspectives on creativity in the light of contemporary critical theory and cultural history. Innovative in approach as well as argument, the book crosses disciplinary boundaries and builds new bridges between the critical and the creative. It is organised in four parts:
  • Why creativity now? offers much-needed alternatives to both the Romantic stereotype of the creator as individual genius and the tendency of the modern creative industries to treat everything as a commodity
  • defining creativity, creating definitions traces the changing meaning of 'create' from religious ideas of divine creation from nothing to advertising notions of concept creation. It also examines the complex history and extraordinary versatility of terms such as imagination, invention, inspiration and originality
  • dreation as myth, story, metaphor begins with modern re-tellings of early African, American and Australian creation myths and – picking up Biblical and evolutionary accounts along the way – works round to scientific visions of the Big Bang, bubble universes and cosmic soup
  • creative practices, cultural processes is a critical anthology of materials, chosen to promote fresh thinking about everything from changing constructions of 'literature' and 'design' to artificial intelligence and genetic engineering.
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