Creativity in the Sciences A Workbook Companion to Innovation Generation

by Goodman, Michael L.; Dickerson, Aisha S.; Ness, Roberta B.

• ISBN13: 9780199915545
• ISBN10: 0199915547
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-01-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Learning to think innovatively requires practice. This workbook, which serves as a companion to Roberta Ness's Innovation Generation: How to Produce Creative and Useful Scientific Ideas, provides over 150 exercises and activities to hone creative problem-solving skills. Workbook tasks include improvisation, insight exercises, and generative skill building. Each chapter addresses doubts that individuals harbor concerning their ability to improve their innovative output, the techniques to work around frames, metaphors and biases in thinking, manipulatives to rearrange problem conceptualization, insight, intuition, collective innovative output from groups, and social and environmental factors that affect creative thinking. The workbook features straightforward and heuristic exercises for both individuals and groups.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Don't Read This Book

It All Depends on How You Look at It

Overcoming Frames

Say it Like You Mean it

Overcoming Metaphors

Check This Out!

Becoming a Keener Observer

How Biased Are You?

Overcoming Bias

The Brain and Creativity

The Joy of Science

Asking the Right Questions

How is Marriage like a Matchbox

Flip it!

A Man Walked Into a Bar

The Power of Group Intelligence

Getting the Most from a Group

Intuition

Testing Your Idea

That Right Idea

Overcoming the Stodginess of Science

Innovation Incubators

References

Index of Exercises by Type

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