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Engineering Creativity: The Influence of General Knowledge and Thinking Heuristics

  • Iouri BelskiEmail author
  • Anne Skiadopoulos
  • Guillermo Aranda-Mena
  • Gaetano Cascini
  • Davide Russo
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Belski et al. revisit the Amabile’s model of creativity and propose to append its components in order to describe engineering creativity more accurately. Analysing the outcomes of numerous idea-generation experiments, they conclude that in order to adequately explain creative performance of engineers, the ‘knowledge outside profession’ component (i.e. ‘general knowledge’) needs to be added to classical components of creative performance. Reflecting on the outcomes of idea generation experiments, the authors conclude that ideation heuristics can effectively facilitate the use of this ‘general knowledge’ component.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Iouri Belski
    • 1
    Email author
  • Anne Skiadopoulos
    • 2
  • Guillermo Aranda-Mena
    • 1
  • Gaetano Cascini
    • 3
  • Davide Russo
    • 4
  1. 1.Royal Melbourne Institute of TechnologyMelbourneAustralia
  2. 2.La Trobe UniversityBundooraAustralia
  3. 3.Polytechnic University of MilanMilanItaly
  4. 4.Department of Management, Information and Production EngineeringUniversity of BergamoBergamoItaly

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