Creativity and Innovation: towards a European Network : Report of the First European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, ‘Network in Action’, organized by the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO Delft, The Netherlands, 13-16 December 1987

Climates for Creativity and Innovation -- “Climates for Creativity and Innovation: building a context for meaning”, summary of theme discussion -- Implementation of innovation: a case study from the food industry -- Improving corporate climates for creativity; learning from four interventions -- Generation of ideas by managers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria -- Modelling firms as communicators with and interpreters of foreign business environments -- Company creativity and innovation -- A new model for creativity -- “Creativity and innovation: an industrial R&D managers’ perspective”, (no paper available) -- Some guidelines, constraints and ideas -- “Climate and conditions for creativity and innovation”, (no paper available) -- “‘Trainer/meter’ for improving the innovative ability of an organization, an idea being developed in Finland”, (no paper available) -- Managing creativity in organizations — why does it fail -- Structured Innovation Approaches -- “Structured Innovation Approaches”, summary of theme discussion -- “Findings from an emperical study about successful innovations”, (no paper available) -- Innovation and vision -- The role of normative information in innovation management -- Innovation can be learned — some issues in designing a large scale Norwegian Innovation Program (N.I.P.) -- The arduous process of technical innovation — a technician’s view -- “Making product development more creative”, (no paper available) -- Implementing innovation; teaching the process for implementation within organizations -- Innovation management consulting — a Philips case -- Organizing innovation in emerging technologies -- Innovation in work design -- ‘Inno-weak’: using an organization’s weakness as a spring-board for innovation -- Systematic search for search of product ideas -- Criteria for market-oriented product development -- Structured innovation through continuous interaction between the user, intermediaries and the manufacturer -- Looking for ideas in a consumer market -- Problem-Solving and Creativity Techniques -- “Problem-Solving and Creativity Techniques”, summary of theme discussion -- Concept-building; a new method to ‘make ideas work’ -- “Breakthrough; getting better ideas”, (no paper available) -- Practical ways of stimulating the brain in problem-solving processes -- “Operationalizing results from market research through creative problem-solving”, (no paper available) -- Creative product scale: applications in product improvement -- Vision Building and Imagery -- “Vision Building and Imagery”, summary of theme discussion -- “Mental rehearsal for peak performance”, (no paper available) -- Personal vision building -- “Let’s share some experiences on organisational visioning”, (no paper available) -- “Strategic visioning”, (no paper available) -- The role of Computers, Simulations & Games -- “The role of Computers, Simulations & Games”, summary of theme discussion -- Awareness game on innovation processes -- Development of morphological solutions using a personal computer program -- “R&D Marketing Interface Simulation”, (no paper available) -- Starcatcher, a selection tool -- Computers and creativity: a case study -- Creative People -- “Creative People”, summary of theme discussion -- The third dimension of leadership — change centered -- Creativity in Teyler -- How to combine management roles and creativity -- Measuring barriers to creativity -- Educating for Creativity -- “Educating for Creativity”, summary of theme discussion -- Creative education; using project work in university training -- Effects of Creative Problem-Solving training on communication behaviours in small groups -- “Enhancing creativity through communication assertiveness training”, (no paper available) -- Concepts of Creativity -- Entrepreneurship Education: How can we deal with creativity? -- Stimulating creativity and innovations by methodical design -- Organizational Creativity: another approach -- A curriculum for a European course on creativity and innovation -- Thinking patterns: origins and survival value -- “Teaching and education in creativity”, (no paper available).