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Happiness is linked to higher creativity

Idea to Value

One study from 2008 of 171 students found that people’s happiness was significantly related to their ability to come up with ideas. Another 2008 meta-analysis of 102 studies found that the type of mood people were in directly affected their creativity. This was also shown in a 2021 study of 722 high school students in Lithuania.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

Alex Osterwalder defines a business model as “a set of assumptions or hypotheses” and Michael Lewis claims that “all it really meant was how you planned to make money” (Ovans, 2015). 2008), or, more simply, the value proposition (Teece 2010). This notion is commonly referred to as the customer value proposition (Johnson et al.

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Innovate and Persuade with a Well-Judged Nudge

Destination Innovation

The concept was popularised in the influential book, Nudge, by economists, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, published in 2008. In 2015 the World Bank established a group to help developing countries use nudge policies. Showing peer reviews e.g. for companies, products, hotels or restaurants.

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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

Christensen Institute

As Mallory Dwinal wrote in 2015 when she explored the opportunity for innovating where there are teacher shortages, states could also help by allowing these experiences to move away from seat-time requirements to mastery- or competency-based learning and giving districts some resources to evaluate and select the appropriate learning models.

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How Facebook misses out on Talent

Destination Innovation

Little wonder then that Bloomberg reported that 150 of the USA largest tech firms were sued 226 times for age discrimination from 2008 to 2015. In 2007 at age 22 Mark Zuckerberg profoundly stated, ‘Younger people are just smarter. Why are most chess masters under 30?’.

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Are you born creative? Is creativity genetic? The nature vs nurture debate

Idea to Value

Finally, a more recent twins study by Velázquez 2015 indicates that only about 23–26% of the variance in creative drawing ability was explained by genetic factors. A 2008 meta-analysis performed by Prof DK Simonton estimated that performance related to creativity and talent had a basis that was no more than 10% – 20% genetic.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2008 more…. Focus stage: Growth Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2015 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2014 more…. Co-Creation (Prahalad).