Open the ‘black box’ creativity and innovation: a study of activities in R&D departments. Some prospects for engineering education.

Autor: Millet, Charlyne, Oget, David, Cavallucci, Denis
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Zdroj: European Journal of Engineering Education; Dec2017, Vol. 42 Issue 6, p1000-1024, 25p
Abstrakt: Innovation is a key component to the success and longevity of companies. Our research opens the ‘black box’ of creativity and innovation in R&D teams. We argue that understanding the nature of R&D projects in terms of creativity/innovation, efficiency/inefficiency, is important for designing education policies and improving engineering curriculum. Our research addresses the inventive design process, a lesser known aspect of the innovation process, in 197 R&D departments of industrial sector companies in France. One fundamental issue facing companies is to evaluate processes and results of innovation. Results show that the evaluation of innovation is confined by a lack of methodology of inventive projects. We will be establishing the foundations of a formal ontology for inventive design projects and finally some recommendations for engineering education. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Databáze: Complementary Index