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Creativity: Theories and Themes: Research, Development, and Practice

Capturing an eclectic approach to creativity, Mark A. Runco discusses whether creativity is influenced by nature or nurture, personality and style research and how social context affects creativity.

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New avenues for business model innovation

New avenues for business model innovation

Despite the high levels of interest and attention that have been applied to business model innovation, the phenomenon still represents ‘a slippery construct to study’.

This fuzziness of the phenomenon is caused by inconsistencies in the conceptual framework of business models, which reside somewhere between economics and business strategy without possessing a solid theoretical anchoring in either field.

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Portfolio Management techniques

Portfolio management is crucial to balance benefit against risk. A number of techniques are discussed in this workbook created by Joe Tidd and John Bessant of the Innovation Portal.

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Once upon a time…

Stories reinforce our models and understanding of how innovation works in a vivid way. Not for nothing do they form the staple diet of most conference presentations, and in a more restrained fashion form the core of our teaching explains John Bessant.

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Tools for managing early-stage business model innovation

Lockheed Martin have used a new two-stage approach to solicit and evaluate thousands of ideas from their employees, improving on traditional financial methods used to evaluate innovation.

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Innovation Fitness Test – a tool to help scoring

John Bessant recommends this tool developed by colleagues in Canada which helps with using the Innovation Fitness test framework.

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How to implement open innovation: Lessons from studying large multinational companies

Open innovation is an innovation in itself and therefore has to be effectively managed right from the beginning if it is to be successfully implemented. This workbook, based on the the lessons of multinational organisations, aims to support senior R&D managers implement an open innovation strategy.

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Organising for breakthrough innovation: Rejuvenating the established firm

ARM, Philips, BT, Qualcomm and BAE Systems are some of the case studies featured in this workbook that aims to show radical innovation can come from established companies.

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Theme editors

Guest Theme Editors act as the focal point and editor for their part of the website. There will generally be two editors per Theme, one from an Academic background and one a Practitioner, acting in partnership.

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Creating Breakthrough Ideas: The Collaboration of Anthropologists and Designers in the Product Development Industry

Creating Breakthrough Ideas: The Collaboration of Anthropologists and Designers in the Product Development Industry

As ethnographic research becomes increasingly central to the creation of new products, services and marketing strategies for both home and global markets; anthropologists and other social scientists are in demand by R&D firms.

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‘How to’ statements

A useful tool in creative problem solving is the ‘how to’ statement which provides a powerful way of reframing the problem.

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TRIZ Toolkit

The challenge of applying TRIZ tool kit for ideation

TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving) provides a logical approach to developing creativity for innovation and inventive problem solving.

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