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In order to investigate what blocks effective team ideation, brilliant researchers have offered a wealth of theories on what team attributes might block or promote ideation, as was attempted to summarise in the last chapter. So far, this text has filtered team-level ideation research through a practitioner’s lens. When applying these theories to the creative industries, there can be an automatic assumption that the goal of a creative organisation is to maximise and sustain employees’ creativity, especially if collaborative ideation offers the potential of ‘extra’ creativity that only occurs when multiple people collaborate. However, according to many people interviewed for this text and statistics about the creative industry, this is not the case.
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Folk, L.S. (2022). Hidden Blockers of Ideation in Practice. In: The Hidden Barriers and Enablers of Team-Based Ideation. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Innovation in Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16795-9_4
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