Tools for Innovation
Arthur Markman and Kristin Wood
Abstract
Understanding innovation processes is an inherently multidisciplinary research task. Innovations occur within particular domains such as engineering. Innovation processes must respect the boundaries of human cognitive abilities. Practical innovations must take into account consumer needs and factors that affect consumer acceptance of those ideas. To facilitate the development of tools to support the innovation process, this book presents chapters that are multidisciplinary collaborations among researchers that illuminate the underlying psychological mechanisms of innovation and present new met ... More
Understanding innovation processes is an inherently multidisciplinary research task. Innovations occur within particular domains such as engineering. Innovation processes must respect the boundaries of human cognitive abilities. Practical innovations must take into account consumer needs and factors that affect consumer acceptance of those ideas. To facilitate the development of tools to support the innovation process, this book presents chapters that are multidisciplinary collaborations among researchers that illuminate the underlying psychological mechanisms of innovation and present new methods for facilitating innovation. This book represents the most comprehensive collection of research on the development of innovation tools to date.
Keywords:
innovation,
creativity,
ideation,
design,
engineering design
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195381634 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195381634.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Arthur Markman, editor
University of Texas, Austin
Kristin Wood, editor
University of Texas, Austin
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