On "Out-of-the-Box" Thinking in Creativity

Tools for Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Weisberg, Robert W ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Creativity; Edison; Expertise; IDEO; Logic; Out of the box thinking; Picasso; Reasoning; Watson and Crick; Wright brothers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955060390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195381634.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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