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The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest – The Creativity Guru
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Your Source for the Science of Creativity, Innovation, and Learning. The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. October 23, 2009. Here’s a short article I wrote after interviewing a few recent winners of the contest, after being introduced to them by cartoon editor Bob Mankoff. How do you win the New Yorker cartoon caption contest? Even if you never plan to enter the contest, taking the question seriously may help answer a bigger question: where do good ideas come from? Caption contest as well. Many contest...
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Can You Patent a Process? – The Creativity Guru
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Your Source for the Science of Creativity, Innovation, and Learning. Can You Patent a Process? June 15, 2009. The Supreme Court has recently agreed to hear a case questioning whether a “business process” can be patented. Thousands of patents now cover business processes, including the famous (or infamous) Amazon.com patent on ordering with “one click”. But there’s been a lot of debate about whether a novel process should even be patentable at all. Posted in Organizational innovation. Tagged bilski v doll.
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Apple Wins in Court; Innovation Loses – The Creativity Guru
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Your Source for the Science of Creativity, Innovation, and Learning. Apple Wins in Court; Innovation Loses. August 27, 2012. Last week a U.S. jury sided with Apple in its patent case against Samsung and awarded Apple $1.05 billion. Robin Feldman, an intellectual property law professor at the University of California Hastings Law School, said this just before the verdict:. If any one link in the chain is allowed to block all future enhancements, then innovation stops. I’ve had iPhones for about thre...
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The Structure of Good Ideas – The Creativity Guru
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Your Source for the Science of Creativity, Innovation, and Learning. The Structure of Good Ideas. June 22, 2007. June 22, 2007. I’ve just been reading a fascinating new doctoral dissertation by a recent Ph.D. from Washington University’s Olin School of Business: Chihmao Hsieh. Now a professor at the University 0f Missouri. He asks a fascinating question about innovation: what is the structure of successful new ideas? Perhaps we could measure how those new ideas are related to each other? He measured the ...
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Computer Games and Learning – The Creativity Guru
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Your Source for the Science of Creativity, Innovation, and Learning. Computer Games and Learning. July 14, 2015. There’s been lots of research lately on how computer games can be used to inspire new educational software–software that’s aligned with what we know about how people learn. Most scholars who study this are. And there’s a chapter summarizing this research in my 2014 book,. The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. Here’s a review of a new report called. Taken from the ProfHacker blog.
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What Criminals Can Teach Us About Creativity – The Creativity Guru
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Your Source for the Science of Creativity, Innovation, and Learning. What Criminals Can Teach Us About Creativity. June 30, 2015. A few weeks ago, I posed the question “Is Creativity Research Elitist? I pointed out that creativity researchers have studied high-class Western European creativity, but they’ve neglected working class creativity–like custom motorcycle mechanics, or small-town preachers writing sermons. Right on cue, a new book’s just been published making basically the same point. Computer Ga...
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The Costumed Character “Buford Beaver” – The Creativity Guru
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Your Source for the Science of Creativity, Innovation, and Learning. The Costumed Character “Buford Beaver”. July 31, 2015. For my summer job while in high school, in 1977 I passed a stage audition at the Busch Gardens theme park, in Williamsburg Virginia, to perform as the costumed character “Buford Beaver.” Just today, I found a long-lost photo that shows me, in costume, with my mother and grandmother, check it out! When unexpected zigs and zags come your way, embrace them and own it! Sawyer keynote at...
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Your Source for the Science of Creativity, Innovation, and Learning. The Creative Architect Study. August 9, 2016. By Pierluigi Serraino, and reviewed in the. I recommend reading the WSJ review, and getting the book! McKinnon, D. W. (1962/1978). In search of human effectiveness. Buffalo, NY: Creative Education Foundation. Posted in Case Studies. Institute for personality assessment and research. Creativity is not Localized in the Brain. August 1, 2016. The technology has its critics. Many worry that ...
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Distrust and Creativity – The Creativity Guru
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Your Source for the Science of Creativity, Innovation, and Learning. December 14, 2011. A new research study* explores this question: Does being suspicious and distrustful make you more creative, or less? As with so much creativity research, it seems we’re talking about strategies rather than stable personality traits. The best way to be creative is to be adaptable; to modify your approach depending on the situation. If you’re working alone, be a little suspicious and explore alternat...Jennifer Mayer an...
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