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Creativity in the Sciences: A Workbook Companion to Innovation GenerationI [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 180x259x13 mm, kaal: 431 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Feb-2013
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0199915547
  • ISBN-13: 9780199915545
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 180x259x13 mm, kaal: 431 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Feb-2013
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0199915547
  • ISBN-13: 9780199915545
The World is Confronted by pressing problems that continue to challenge science and will only he solved using maginative, new approaches . But learning to think innovatively requires practice. This workbook. Which Serves as a Companion to Roberta Ness's Innovation Generation: How to Produce Creative and Useful Scientitic ideas, addresses topics ranging from becoming a kcener obsever and asking the right questions to testing your ideas, overcoming the stodginess of science, and creating an innovatin incubator. It will help you acquire the toels to overcome problems large and small

This workbook features straightforward and heunstic exercises for both individuals and groups

Learning to think innovatively requires practice. This workbook, which serves as a companion to Roberta Ness's Innovation Generation: How to Produce Creative and Useful Scientific Ideas, provides over 150 exercises and activities to hone creative problem-solving skills. Workbook tasks include improvisation, insight exercises, and generative skill building. Each chapter addresses doubts that individuals harbor concerning their ability to improve their innovative output, the techniques to work around frames, metaphors and biases in thinking, manipulatives to rearrange problem conceptualization, insight, intuition, collective innovative output from groups, and social and environmental factors that affect creative thinking. The workbook features straightforward and heuristic exercises for both individuals and groups.
Preface vii
1 Introduction
1(6)
2 Don't Read This Book
7(8)
3 It All Depends on How You Look at It
15(8)
4 Overcoming Frames
23(16)
5 Say It Like You Mean It
39(12)
6 Overcoming Metaphors
51(8)
7 Check This Out!
59(6)
8 Becoming a Keener Observer
65(10)
9 How Biased Are You?
75(8)
10 Overcoming Bias
83(4)
11 The Brain and Creativity
87(14)
12 The Joy of Science
101(8)
13 Asking the Right Questions
109(8)
14 How Is Marriage like a Matchbox?
117(10)
15 Flip It!
127(12)
16 A Man Walked into a Bar
139(8)
17 The Power of Group Intelligence
147(6)
18 Getting the Most from a Group
153(10)
19 Intuition
163(6)
20 Testing Your Idea
169(6)
21 That Right Idea
175(8)
22 Overcoming the Stodginess of Science
183(10)
23 Innovation Incubators
193(6)
References 199(6)
Index of Exercises by Type 205(6)
Index 211
Michael L. Goodman is a public health scientist and practitioner with interests in global health, as well as health disparities in the United States. He is active with community health projects in Sub-Sahara Africa and Latin America, and enjoys applying innovative thinking practices to the unique problems that arise in settings with limited resources.

Aisha S. Dickerson is a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Her main research interests, which focus on the possible causes of autism, include gene-environment interactions in autism cases, and further understanding this developmental disorder through innovative research studies.

Roberta B. Ness is Dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health and the University of Texas - Houston Vice President for Innovation. She is also an internationally renowned physician, scientist, and author of over 300 scientific papers and books.