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Happiness is linked to higher creativity

Idea to Value

So real happiness is better for getting creative work done than being relaxed, although let us not forget that relaxation and mindwandering also have their part to play in generating ideas. Interestingly, another study from 2015 found that people’s capacity for how creative they could be was not correlated with their overall happiness.

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The availability bias: Why we overestimate the likelihood of scary but unlikely events

Idea to Value

However, in the last 500 years only 1,909 confirmed shark attacks occurred worldwide (as of the 2015 research paper ); of the 737 that happened in the United States, only 38 people died in total. How easy it is to think of “available” memories is often strongly influenced by the media around us.

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How Has Innovation Created a Private Space Race?

IdeaScale

While most of us don’t have $28 million lying around, that’s still a steep drop over 60 years. A private market could help by tapping new sources of funding and engaging in experiments government agencies couldn’t justify attempting, and would also drive down the cost of launches, thus conserving government funds for more research.

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Sincerely Sima: Keeping Participants Engaged

KindlingApp

This is the second entry in the “Sincerely Sima” blog series which takes a look back at the most frequently asked innovation management questions our customer success team encountered in 2015. Our emphasis on engagement continues here with a look at what it takes to keep participants engaged as active contributors to the conversation.

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Five Barriers to the Innovation Process and How to Overcome Them

IdeaScale

If a company developed a way of doing things in 2015, then it was likely the ideal one at the time. How engaged are employees generally with your internal communications and initiatives? Putting yourself out there is difficult for even the most extroverted of us. Yet that’s a long time ago. Who do you hear from the most?

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Design Thinking: a Global Study on Implementation Practices in Organizations from HPI

InnovationTraining.org

In 2015, the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the Stanford Design Thinking Research Program conducted one of the most extensive global studies looking into the state of design thinking in organizations. 1 – What organizations use design thinking? Contact us online today to learn how to get started. Final Thoughts.

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Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

This 2050 target is in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, the foundations of global consensus to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5c. The IEA models that RD&D investment needs to treble to US$90bn annually vs current levels. This requires nothing short of a total transformation of the energy systems.

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