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Creative rationality and innovation /

This book urges us to be creative in our way of thinking about innovation. Adopting an artificial perspective, the author emphasizes creative rationality: a form of thought that encourages knowledge crossing and invites an adventurous transgression. The question of how such a form of thought might b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Forest, Joëlle (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Hoboken, NJ : ISTE ; Wiley, 2017.
Colección:Innovation, entrepreneurship, management series. Smart innovation set ; v. 14.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Innovation : what exactly are we talking about? Some key distinctions ; Distinguishing innovation from discovery and invention ; What is the distinction between invention and innovation founded upon? ; Typology of innovations based on their purpose ; Typology of innovations based on their scale ; Reasons for innovation
  • Thinking about innovation differently. Innovation in society ; Schumpeter's models of innovation ; From innovation as an outcome to the analysis of innovation as a process ; Contours of the linear and hierarchical model of innovation ; A fertile ground for the creation of the linear and hierarchical model of innovation ; The institutionalization of science ; The lack of technical thought ; Impact of the model with respect to the definition of research and innovation policies ; Limitation of the linear and hierarchical model ; Too much importance given to R&D ; The design process at the core of the innovation process ; The design process, what are we speaking about exactly? ; The two models of the design process according to L. Blessing ; The stages of the design process ; Overall convergence of the design process ; Rule-based design regime versus innovative design regime ; Validity of the model
  • Artificialism. Artificial world as a set of artifacts ; Contribution of the Simonian theory to the understanding of the design process ; Bounded rationality and satisficing ; Design as a process obeying satisficing ; Specificities of the design process ; Simonian empiricism ; Key propositions of Artificialism ; Interest in thinking about innovation from the artificial perspective ; Developing a comprehensive organizational system to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of the design process ; Thinking of the user
  • Innovation by implementing creative rationality. Creative rationality: what exactly are we talking about? ; Thinking in terms of relation ; A form of thought that can replace the inexplicable with the rational ; The reality of creative rationality ; What are innovative biographies? ; The example of Gutenberg's printing press ; The example of the printing press is not an isolated case ; Towards an adventurous transgression ; The Solar Impulse project ; A journey to the center of the production of knowledge ; The basis of a creative rationality model ; A limited production of knowledge ; A production of knowledge that must be interpreted beyond the reasoning at work
  • Creative rationality and the education system. Teaching innovation: a political project ; A harmful confusion between innovation and entrepreneurship ; The Beylat-Tambourin report ; Confusion deriving from J. Schumpeter ; The skills of innovators versus the skills of entrepreneurs ; School environment and creative rationality ; Challenging traditional school ; The parable of the "flea trainer" ; An education system that kills creativity ; Rehabilitating creativity rationality in the training of engineers ; Towards the pedagogy of adventure ; Observing to innovate ; Otherness: recognizing the other ; How to move from the idea of pedagogy of adventure to its implementation?
  • Other titles from iSTE in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management
  • EULA.