What Studies Show Improves Creativity

In New Product Development Coops.
 

Explore new perspectives.  Transcend old and safe ways of thinking. 

Work in small independent units.  Big corporations often squash creativity.

Encourage your new product licensing team members to focus on what they do best.

Trust, caring & open-ness between the creative and more practical people developing inventions.

Set Goals.

Minimize criticism: It frequently inhibits others from speaking and trying.

Risk taking.  Enjoy the thrill of challenges.

Be open: Vague parameters during the initial stages foster your creativity to develop concrete parameters.  Applies to business plans, and the invention’s final look and feel.

Write down and log your project ideas.

Optimism.