How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

While the study of psychology has offered little in the way of explaining the creative process, Koestler examines the idea that we are at our most creative when rational thought is suspended--for example, in dreams and trancelike states. All who read The Act of Creation will find it a compelling and illuminating book.

The Act of Creation

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

Multiagent Systems is the title of a collection of papers dedicated to surveying specific themes of Multiagent Systems (MAS) and Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). All of them authored by leading researchers of this dynamic multidisciplinary field.

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Multiagent systems: a modern approach to distributed artificial intelligence

Discusses the problem of creativity and examines situations in the universe where it exists.

The Nature of Creativity

Creativity support systems: A systematic mapping study

Improving the idea selection process in creative workshops through contextualisation

Le travail de cette these vise a proposer un systeme support a la creativite selon une architecture multi-agents afin de gerer les connaissances necessaires et produites durant un atelier de creativite. Ce travail contribue a la recherche scientifique a differents egards. Au prealable de concevoir un quelconque systeme, une revue des systemes actuels supportant la creativite est realisee pour determiner leurs limites en termes de processus de creativite et de modes de collaboration. Pour repondre a ces limites, l’approche d’ingenierie des connaissances est adoptee. Autrement dit, la creativite est consideree comme un processus collaboratif et organisationnel afin d’en deduire les activites a supporter ainsi que les connaissances et les competences a apporter aux individus pour les assister a realiser ces activites. A partir de la modelisation organisationnelle d’un atelier de creativite, l’organisation des agents informatiques qui vont contribuer a la gestion des connaissances en est deduite. Par la suite, une ontologie de l’atelier de creativite est formalisee a partir de la modelisation de l’organisation afin d’apporter une representation des connaissances et de l’environnement aux agents. Ainsi, l’architecture multi-agents proposee pour concevoir un systeme support a la creativite permet d’explorer de nouveaux modes de traitement des connaissances notamment concernant l’evaluation des idees. Une methodologie d’evaluation des idees selon des methodes d’analyse multicritere est proposee. En complement de cette methodologie, le traitement automatique des idees a ete experimente afin d’aider les evaluateurs dans leur tâche

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Gestion des connaissances lors d’un processus collaboratif de créativité

This paper presents a case study on emerging challenges within collaborative innovation projects engaging open communities. Innovation driven by open communities has proven to have a significant potential, in particular for open source software. However, tools and methodologies enabling the supervision of collaborative innovation involving open communities, in the perspective of creating open hardware to solve societal issues, remains at the early stages. This paper seeks to pinpoint the potentialities and challenges of such projects toward defining methods to better support a multi-stakeholders open source collaboration context. The experimental field of this research concerns the smart electricity distribution, and more precisely a public driven project of the diffusion of smart-meters in France and their appropriation by open source communities, with the involvement of the university and a public industrial company. The project seeks to study how these communities of users develop in a collaborative manner, new products and services using the smart-meter as a support technology. The first results show that the open community makes natural connection on specific environments such as Smart buildings to materialize usages of smart meters.

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Collaborative innovation projects engaging open communities: A case study on emerging challenges

Humanity is facing environmental issues that require the whole way in which we produce, distribute, and consume energy to be challenged. One technical solution that is widely considered is the smart grid, meaning a decentralized and multi-scale smart energy system. For more than a decade, various pilot projects have been implemented successfully all over the European Union. If such pilots are to be scaled up into effective roll-outs, the electrical engineering workforce needs to be prepared, as do the public authorities, engineering researchers and broader public. They need quick awareness-raising and training in the benefits, drawbacks, opportunities and skills associated with smart grids. Due to the complex nature of the situation and the related challenges for society, designing this training requires an innovative and participative approach. This article proposes a case study on applying a living lab approach to the design of innovative online courses on smart grids.

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Alex Gabriel

Papers

Creativity support systems: A systematic mapping study

Improving the idea selection process in creative workshops through contextualisation

Gestion des connaissances lors d’un processus collaboratif de créativité

Collaborative innovation projects engaging open communities: A case study on emerging challenges

Applying a Living Lab Approach to Smart Grid Training Course Design