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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"creative product"”.
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INNOVATION, CULTURE, AND TRADE CONFLICT
My doctoral thesis centers on cultural and creative goods. I study the long-lasting impacts of culture on economic activities. Cultural diversity may serve as a benefit for innovation, and this has been examined in chapter 3. Cultural distance may serve as a cost to international trade, which has …
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The Paradox of Creativity and Business in Feature Hollywood Filmmaking: The Relationship Between Motion Picture Production and Budgeting
… the relationship between movie budgeting and the creative process in Hollywood filmmaking. To understand the effects of this relationship on the creative product, several films are analyzed within the production process where conflicts between the investors and creators are observed. A case study …
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Haha and aha! : creativity, idea generation, improvisational humor, and product design
… is the new competitive battleground for product development firms. Engineers and product designers are now expected to be highly creative, prolific idea generators in addition to being analytically competent. Thus, it is of interest to study methods to improve a designer's idea generation …
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Cultural perspectives in school communities: an exploration and representation of cultural identity in pre-service teachers
This arts based research consists of a creative product – the film Classroom Conversations around Culture, and an accompanying exegesis – Cultural Perspectives in School Communities: An Exploration and Representation of Cultural Identity in Pre-Service Teachers. Both the film and the exegesis …
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Comparison of Students' Product Creativity Using a Computer Simulation Activity versus a Hands-on Activity in Technology Education
… activity versus a hands-on activity on students' product creativity, originality, and usefulness. Fifty-eight middle school technology education students from Northern Virginia participated in the study. Subjects were randomly assigned to either a computer simulation or hands-on treatment group. …
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Analytical explorations of creative interaction and collaborative process through composition, rehearsal and performance: a composer-composer case study of acoustic music with live electronics
This thesis explores both the creative process and the creative product behind a unique and complex collaboration between two composers, called Endings (2012): firstly Jeremy Peyton Jones and secondly Kaffe Matthews. It interrogates the behavioural aspects and negotiations between the two composers …
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A Theory for the Dissemination of Educational Change Founded on Development of Affective Values Using Adaptive Behavior
… in wide use based on the beauty of the final product and facility in the use of a wide range of materials has proven resistant to change. The problem lies in changing from one philosophy of art education to another. Procedure. Literature in the areas of aesthetic education, creativity, the …
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‘Standing in the shadows’?: Reframing homosexuality in musical theatre
… of String, and providing an analysis of the creative process and the creative product. Whilst the investigation considers the Broadway/UK musical theatre canon, the primary focus is on contemporary musicals written and produced since 2000 which further contributes to the field and affords …
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Inspiration and Novelty: Creativity and the Modularity of Mind
… explanation of the origin of novelty in creative thought. Darwinian evolution by natural selection explains the origin of novelty in the biological sphere, and theories of creativity drawing an analogy with evolution are examined. It is concluded that whereas creativity clearly shares …
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Designing a business model for SMEs global expansion: the case of WET in Hong Kong
… are that the 4 Is – Innovation (uniqueness and creative product of the business), Incubation, Intellectual Property and Integration (of technology) – are crucial in promoting the success of SMEs in internationalisation and business operation. Once a new idea is raised, the company should provide …
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Theoretical Development of Creative Thinking: The Role of Integrative Thinking and Social Cognition
Creative thinking is the psychological mechanism underlying the descriptive process that produces real-life creative outcomes. However, the connection between individual creative thinking and real-life creativity remains unclear. For example, the widely employed psychometric tools for creative …
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An Investigation into the Effects of Teacher Involvement and Influence on the Creativity of Children in the Classroom (Saudi Arabia)
The creative ability of a child to realise their imagination is something that is a pleasure to see in drawings created by children. There is the idea that whatever is produced by children is something pure and valuable in its own right. Unfortunately, when children are being creative, they are …
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Critical computer animation: an examination of "practice as research" and its reflection and review processes.
… and knowledge, shifting away from the common creative product-oriented view. The model naturally led a practitioner to intervene one's perspective and previous ways of doing. It showed that the “Practice as Research” approach could increase creativity in a product while maintaining control in …
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A dinamização criativa da escrita no ensino básico
The Boosting in Creative Writing in Basic School begins by reviewing the complex concept of creativity, providing some insight about erroneous conceptions and recognizing it as a universal attribute, which can be stimulated by an appropriate pedagogy. This idea is based on the need to promote and …
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A Narrative Inquiry of Student Engagement and Learning in a University-Based Social Venture Plan Competition
… costs of developing or testing a prototype for a creative product or service with potentially social benefits. Participants who launched a venture were found to have invested a substantial amount of “sweat equity,” a term used to describe the commitment in time and money needed to launch a new …
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Creativity or calamity : what does the future hold? : an examination of teacher's understandings of creativity in a sample of South African schools
… and apply what they have learned in new and creative ways (Seltzer and Bentley 1999). To help equip our learners with the attitudes and abilities that will enable them to meet future problems creatively and inventively (Parnes 1970) we need a curriculum that acknowledges the importance of …
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Locations and dis-locations of personal, public and imaginary space in the visual production of ten women artists working in South Africa
… as a selfthat is becoming through the making of creative products. What is demonstrated is that the creative product participates in the realisation ofcontinuous identity formation by virtue ofthe operation ofmemory, which ensures the contact ofselfwith the abstract yet creative potential within …
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Exploring the comparative effects of societal syndromes on knowledge discovery in new product-process development : contrasting Anglo-Western society and Han-Chinese society
International marketers must learn how to match product and process transformation requirements to localised cultural predispositions, as not all cultures are equally disposed towards novel innovation or improving existing technologies. In this thesis, the original unification of prior histological …
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Artificial Intelligence Tools, Curricula, and Agents for Creative Learning
… hold immense potential for reducing barriers to creative expression, access to these AI tools and AI knowledge among K-12 students and educators remains inequitable to children from groups underrepresented in STEM. In this thesis, I explore how AI, as an emerging creative medium, can be made more …
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Creative ideas for creativity research in marketing: Creativity connects, frees, and empowers
… has predominantly been on enhancing individual creative performance to drive product, brand, and organizational innovation. However, what is the impact of creativity on consumers, or more generally, humans? In my dissertation, I explore the psychological feelings that consumers experience as …
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