Creativity in the engineering domain
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2017
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Cropley, D.H.
Cropley, A.J.
Sandwith, B.L.
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Kaufman, J.C.
Glaveanu, V.P.
Baer, J.
Glaveanu, V.P.
Baer, J.
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Source details - Title: The Cambridge handbook of creativity across domains, 2017 / Kaufman, J.C., Glaveanu, V.P., Baer, J. (ed./s), Ch.15, pp.261-275
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Engineering can claim an important association with the birth of the modern creativity era. The Sputnik Shock of 1957 led to the identification of creativity not only as a valuable quality in general, but also as a vital element of practical, successful problem solving. The engineering domain epitomizes the interdependence of the Four Ps of creativity - Person, Product, Process, and Press - highlighting the necessity of each as a component of generating effective and novel solutions to problems. In this chapter, we discuss both what makes engineering unique as a domain of creativity, and also how important the core, psychological con structs of creativity are to this domain. We discuss, in particular, two facets of creativity - the characteristics of creative products, and the measurement of divergent thinking - where insights from the domain of engineering add value to the understanding of creativity as a systems phenomenon.
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Copyright 2017 Cambridge University Press