The Science of Innovation: Tools and Methods

创新和创造力一直是各种科学学科深入研究的焦点，包括心理学，工程学，计算机科学和商业。 这项工作揭示了人们制定问题，寻找潜在类比和评估可能性的方式的一些关键方面。 这项研究所获得的知识可能是有用的，因为大多数劳动力对自己的思维过程了解不够，无法激发自己的创造力。 对创新和创造力的研究可能会导致促进实验室和工作场所可重复创新的方法和技术。 美国国家科学基金会正在支持由得克萨斯大学IC2研究所主办的多学科研讨会，以探索创新工具的开发。 该研讨会将汇集认知科学家，工程师，计算机科学家，商业研究人员和商业社区成员，提出可用于创新环境的具体工具。 这些建议不仅是支持实验室和工作场所创新过程的可行方法，也是讨论新研究问题的基础，这些问题将扩展我们对创造性过程的了解。 支持这个研讨会将使学生和初级研究人员参与来自不同学科的研究人员之间的新合作的最早阶段，他们对创新和创造力有着共同的兴趣。

Innovation and creativity have been the focus of intensive study across a variety of scientific disciplines, including Psychology, Engineering, Computer Science, and Business. This work has revealed a number of key aspects about the way people formulate a problem, search for potential analogies, and evaluate possible. The knowledge gained by this research is potentially useful because most people in the workforce do not know enough about their own thought processes to spur themselves to be creative. Research on innovation and creativity may lead to methods and techniques that promote repeatable innovation in the the lab and the workplace. The National Science Foundation is supporting a multidisciplinary workshop hosted by the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas to explore the development of tools for innovation. This workshop will bring together cognitive scientists, engineers, computer scientists, business researchers, and members of the business community to propose specific tools that could be used in innovation settings. These proposals are intended not only as workable methods of supporting the processes of innovation in the lab and the workplace, but also as the basis of discussion for new research questions that will extend our knowledge of the creative process. Support of this workshop will enable students and junior investigators to participate in the earliest stages of new collaborations among researchers from different disciplines who share a common interest in innovation and creativity.