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.- Systematicsearch 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 inuniversity 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).