Creativity in R&D Organizations

K. B. Akhilesh
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K. B. Akhilesh: Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Chapter Chapter 11 in R&D Management, 2014, pp 125-139 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Today R&D organizations deal with broad spectrum of contemporary challenges like market pressures, technical complexities, and limitations which demand a high degree of creativity and innovation in R&D organizations. This chapter explains the role of creativity in organizations and factors influencing the organizational creativity. Further, we have provided a brief account on creative process, creativity climate, and barriers of creativity, creativity training, tools, and techniques to measure creativity. The final section of this chapter emphasizes on core job dimensions and its characteristics in R&D to elicit, manage, and mapping creativity. Further, idea development and management emphasizes on continuous engagement of employees leading toward creative organization. Learning Objectives: To provide overview on the role of creativity and innovation in organization, specifically R&D organization and the factors affecting organizational creativity; to describe creativity and the various aspects related to it, such as creativity process, creative climate in a scientific organization, barriers to creativity, training for creativity, and techniques of creativity; to explore a range of ways to build greater creativity in R&D.

Keywords: The overview of creativity in R&D organization; The affecting factors in organizational creativity; Ideas and innovations in R&D organizations; Techniques of creativity; Core job dimensional characteristics in creativity; Redesign of job in R&D organizations; Supervising creativity in R&D; Idea management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1946-0_11

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