Industry and the Creative Mind

Industry and the Creative Mind
Author: Sandra Tomc
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472118366

A new look at the "eccentric author" figure in early nineteenth-century America

The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries

The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries
Author: Candace Jones
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2015-07-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191062278

The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries is a reference work, bringing together many of the world's leading scholars in the application of creativity in economics, business and management, law, policy studies, organization studies, and psychology. Creative industries research has become a regular theme in academic journals and conferences across these subjects and is also an important agenda for governments throughout the world, while business people from established companies and entrepreneurs revaluate and innovate their models in creative industries. The Handbook is organized into four parts: Following the editors' introduction, Part One on Creativity includes individual creativity and how this scales up to teams, social networks, cities, and labour markets. Part Two addresses Generating and Appropriating Value from Creativity, as achieved by agents and organizations, such as entrepreneurs, stars and markets for symbolic goods, and considers how performance is measured in the creative industries. Part Three covers the mechanics of Managing and Organizing Creative Industries, with chapters on the role of brokerage and mediation in creative industry networks, disintermediation and glocalisation due to digital technology, the management of project-based organzations in creative industries, organizing events in creative fields, project ecologies, Global Production Networks, genres and classification and sunk costs and dynamics of creative industries. Part Four on Creative Industries, Culture and the Economy offers chapters on cultural change and entrepreneurship, on development, on copyright, economic spillovers and government policy. This authoritative collection is the most comprehensive source of the state of knowledge in the increasingly important field of creative industries research. Covering emerging economies and new technologies, it will be of interest to scholars and students of the arts, business, innovation, and policy.

Caffeine for the Creative Mind

Caffeine for the Creative Mind
Author: Stefan Mumaw
Publisher: HOW Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-10-02
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781581808674

What do you do if you are lagging in the morning? You probably grab a cup of coffee for that extra boost of energy. Throughout the day, you are asked to be creative, to come up with new and better ideas. So what do you do when you need a creative jolt for your brain? Now you can turn to Caffeine for the Creative Mind. This collection of short, focused creative exercises is just the boost you need get your brain working. Inside, you'll find: Over 250 brain-stretching exercises. The exercises are brief, fun and are meant to evoke creative, thought-provoking responses. Get your brain moving by engaging in an exercise at the start of your day or stop and do one whenever you need a creative jolt. "I Tried It" testimonials. From illustrators to photographers to professors, real people give feedback on specific exercises they've tried. They also offer more suggestions for how the exercises can be used, changed or reworked to become even more useful. Interviews with prominent creative people. See how the people who are in charge of building and maintaining creative environments—studio heads, designers, shop owners, illustrators and animators—view the importance of creativity in their everyday lives. The only thing keeping you from reaching a new level of creative thought is inaction. With this stimulating book, you'll learn how to focus your creative attention in short, definable ways. Caffeine for the Creative Mind is your springboard for coming up with solutions that challenge you to alter your perspective—and begin generating ideas at the highest possible level!

Creative Industries

Creative Industries
Author: Richard E. Caves
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780674001640

"To explain the logic of these arrangements, the author draws on the analytical resources of industrial economics and the theory of contracts. He addresses the winner-take-all character of many creative activities that brings wealth and renown to some artists while dooming others to frustration; why the "option" form of contract is so prevalent; and why even savvy producers get sucked into making "ten-ton turkeys," such as Heaven's Gate."--BOOK JACKET.

Inventive Minds

Inventive Minds
Author: Robert John Weber
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1992
Genre: Creative ability in technology
ISBN: 0195071700

Is invention really "99 percent" perspiration and "one percent inspiration" as Thomas Edison assured us? Inventive Minds assembles a group of authors well equipped to address this question: contemporary inventors of important new technologies, historians of science and industry, and cognitive psychologists interested in the process of creativity. In telling their stories, the inventors describe the origins of such remarkable devices as ultrasound, the electron microscope, and artificial diamonds. The historians help us look into the minds of innovators like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Michael Faraday, and the Wright brothers, drawing on original notebooks and other sources to show how they made their key discoveries. Finally, cognitive psychologists explore the mental processes that figure in creative thinking. Contributing to the authors' insight is their special focus on the "front end" of invention -- where ideas come from and how they are transformed into physical prototypes. They answer three questions: How does invention happen? How does invention contrast with other commonly creative pursuits such as scientific inquiry, musical composition, or painting? And how might invention best happen -- that is, what kinds of settings, conditions, and strategies appear to foster inventive activity? The book yields a wealth of information that will make absorbing reading for cognitive and social psychologists, social historians, and many working scientists and general readers who are interested in the psychology of personality and the roots of ingenuity.

Industry and the Creative Mind

Industry and the Creative Mind
Author: Sandra Tomc
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2012-06-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0472028421

Industry and the Creative Mind takes a radically new look at the figure of the eccentric, alienated writer in American literature and entertainment from 1790 to 1860. Traditional scholarship takes for granted that the eccentric writer, modeled by such Romantic beings as Lord Byron and brought to life for American audiences by the gloomy person of Edgar Allan Poe, was a figure of rebellion against the excesses of modern commercial culture and industrial life. By contrast, Industry and the Creative Mind argues that in the United States myths of writerly moodiness, alienation, and irresponsibility predated the development of a commercial arts and entertainment industry and instead of forming a site of rebellion from this industry formed a bedrock for its development. Looking at the careers of a number of early American writers---Joseph Dennie, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Edgar Allan Poe, Fanny Fern, as well as a host of now forgotten souls who peopled the twilight worlds of hack fiction and industrial literature---this book traces the way in which early nineteenth-century American arts and entertainment systems incorporated writerly eccentricity in their "logical" economic workings, placing the mad, rebellious writer at the center of the industry's productivity and success.

Creativity in Industry

Creativity in Industry
Author: Percy Ronald Whitfield
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1975
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Monograph on the role of creative thinking in fostering innovations in industry, with particular reference to behaviour and personality traits of innovators in the UK - covers psychological aspects of creativity, the impact of the work environment on Motivation to innovate, etc., and comprises a brief description of some acknowledged British innovators. Bibliography pp. 204 to 211.

Management and Creativity

Management and Creativity
Author: Chris Bilton
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2006-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1405119969

This book explores the relationship between the management of creativity and creative approaches to management. Challenges the stereotypical opposition between ‘creatives’ and ‘suits’. Draws on the work of management theorists such as Mintzberg and Porter and creativity theorists such as Amabile and Boden. Draws on the practical experience of individuals working in the creative industries. Looks at the place of creative organisations and creative business management in a new creative economy, based on ideas, images and information.

Secrets to a Creative Mind

Secrets to a Creative Mind
Author: David Judd Nutting
Publisher:
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781478719243

Secrets to a Creative Mind will take the reader into a world never before revealed. It is a unique world of the power of the human creative mind. Become master of your own mind and claim the life you were destine to become. The author will reveal secrets to a creative mind that have never been revealed before. He will even give insights in to the genius mind. Secrets to a Creative Mind will open a window to your inner self, your soul. With the newly discovered creative self, a fresh spiritual awakening will arise. It is like discovering a secret world within yourself that the reader never knew was there. To become master of your own mind you will learn about thought talk-giving instructions to your subconscious mind on your goals in life and how your subconscious mind will make it all happen. What you thinketh you will become. The reader will also learn about neuro empatic tingle which is totally unique only to you. What arises as aesthetic pleasure or simply what turns you on. Richly layered with basic lessons on the Quantum World, and the use of rap rhymes to help retain key points, the reader becomes mesmerized in their new found knowledge. What makes the author David Judd Nutting so uniquely qualified to bring forth his never before unveiled findings, comes from his highly successful life time activities as an Industrial Designer, as an Inventor as an Entrepreneur and Author. Secrets to a Creative Mind could only be written by Dave Nutting, it is his story on how the creative mind works. This makes it a truly essential read for the young professionals as they search for their meaning in life. Secrets to a Creative Mind will appeal to all gender and to all ages. Parents and Grandparents will pass on copies to their younger generations as they discover basic functions of the human mind they never knew existed as they were growing up. About the Author Dave has spent the past 55 years of his professional career as a designer, engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and as an author. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute with a degree in Industrial Design. After serving two years as a 1ST Lt. in the Army Corps of Engineers, he joined the firm of Brooks Stevens Associates. As a design consulting firm Nutting became involved in the design of Evinrude Outboard Motors, Mirro cookware, Bolens tractors, Studebaker automotive and 3M products. For Willys Motors Nutting designed the first SUV the Jeep Grand Wagoneer, and went on to design the Enstrom helicopter. Nutting established his own group, Nutting Industries and created a series of coin operated amusement games, starting with the IQ Computer. Pioneering the world of arcade amusement rooms in malls, 22 Red Baron game rooms were established throughout the country. In 1970 Dave Nutting Associates became the R&D consultants to Bally Mfg. In 1974, they created the first microprocessor pinball, then in 1975 the first microprocessor video game system and then the first video slot machine. Some of the more famous games produced by Bally/ Midway were Gunfight, Seawolf, Pacman, Wizard of Wor, Gorf, Tron and Baby Pac Pin. In 1979 the Nutting group created the first personal computer marketed as the Bally Arcade. In his spare moments Nutting spent time studying Quantum Physics and then in 2005, wrote a book "Language of Nature-Quantum World Revealed." The Quantum world explains Nature's creative process.