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  • 1.  RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Posted 12-05-2006 17:19

    I believe divergent thinking should be seen as a challenge to Business Schools pretending to teach entrepreneurship. Business Plans became the basic common content of entrepreneurship disciplines and it is now clear that it represents just one of the tools to teach entrepreneurship but real e-ship education should go beyond this. Competences like risk taking behavior or perseverance are very difficult or maybe impossible to teach, but creative thinking techniques are not far from educators possibilities, although require distinct skills from regular academic teachers as the practice of 'thinking-out-of-the-box' needs unusual teaching methods.

     

    I am currently developing a 24 hrs creativity course to grad and undergrad students and would appreciate to exchange ideas on how to deliver such kind of course to achieve the best results on their capacity to have ideas and identify business opportunities.

     

    Marcos Hashimoto
    ( (55-11) 4504-2300 - ext 2713
    1     Entrepreneurship Center
    * MarcosH@isp.edu.br

    www.ibmecsp.edu.br

    Quata st, 300 - Vila Olimpia - SP

     

    De: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [mailto:ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] Em nome de Norris Krueger
    Enviada em: terça-feira, 5 de dezembro de 2006 16:36
    Para: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Assunto: Re: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

     

    Ricardo - I would suggest contacting Lisa Gundry at DePaul; she knows more about this than about anyone. (Also, Jill Kickul @ Miami and Jeff Stamp @ UND; lgundry@depaul.edu, kickuljr@muohio.edu, jeff.stamp@mail.business.und.edu - Jeff's most recent work is danged fascinating) I feel rather cheeky responding, given their expertise, LOL.

    Measuring creativity in any population can obviously be a challenge. Jack Savidge makes a great point that "creativity" to be a productive quality will vary across the lifecycle. Kirton's measure of creative *style* is intriguing, though it's essentially a commercial project. [There have been studies using Kirton such as Buttner, et al.] One could be highly creative in terms of path-breaking radical innovation, yet awful at incremental ideas -and vice-versa. Creativity at divergent thinking can differ mightily from creativity at convergent thinking.

    If you are assessing style (type of creativity rather than quantity) you might also look at Allinson & Hayes's Cognitive Style measure. Keith Brigham [kbrigham@ba.ttu.edu ] has done a lot with that as has Eugene Sadler-Smith [e.sadler-smith@surrey.ac.uk]. Dr. Kickul & I have used CSI very productively too.

    As for measuring?
    The classic Torrence approach measures creativity on multiple dimensions. [Lisa/Jill/Jeff, if I screw this up, bail me out! LOL] After eliciting ideas ("how many things can you do with a pencil?") you can judge the fluency (sheer number of ideas), novelty (number of unique ideas) and utility (assess the value of the ideas) - one can also ask judges to assess how 'big' or how 'radical/incremental' the ideas are.

    Training in divergent thinking tends to increase all these dimensions, even if it's just "how to brainstorm 101". For example, in the classroom I've provided brief scenarios, then asked students to ideate (then measure a <st1:personname productid="la Torrence" w:st="on">la Torrence</st1:personname>) -and look at what drives the quantity and especially quality of the ideas. Self-efficacy in the scenario situation seems to be a big driver, about as powerful as the training at divergent thinking.

    Good luck!
    Norris

    On 11/29/06, Ricardo Jesús Bolaños Barrera <ricardob@itesm.mx> wrote:

    Those any one has an instrument to measure creativity in the entrepreneur?

     

    Not the innovation in the business, but the creativity in the person.

     

    Best regards

    Ing. Ricardo B olaños Barrera ( ricardob@itesm.mx)
    Director de <st1:personname productid="la Incubadora" w:st="on">la Incubadora</st1:personname> de Empresas
    División de Posgrados e Investigacion
    Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México


    Teléfono: (5255) 5864.5555 extensión 3464
    Fax: (5255) 5864.5779
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    http://www.itesm.mx

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  • 2.  RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Posted 12-06-2006 16:44
    Marcos--

    I completely agree about the importance of teaching creativity in
    business schools, not only as an element of entrepreneurship, but for
    strategic and operational success.

    I feel that I have had great success by pushing up the complexity of the
    course from "out of the box" brainstorming to a full breadth approach to
    cross-functional team creativity, based in large part on the approach
    used for years by value engineering, bringing in tools of systems thinking.

    Students respond well and have generated million dollar real world
    profits and/or savings from class exercises.

    I also push a large chunk of this content into basic entrepreneurship
    course, helping the students take a much more realistically effective
    approach to their plans.
    --
    Christopher M. Barlow, PhD
    The Co-Creativity Institute
    551 Roosevelt Road #112
    Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
    Voice: (630) 221-9456
    mailto://barlow@cocreativity.com
    http://www.cocreativity.com

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  • 3.  RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Posted 12-07-2006 07:25

    This is exactly what I think, Chris. The subject (creativity) seems to have gained a strong popularity in days where innovation became the synonymous of competitiveness.

    In my opinion, new ideas have always some relation to risk acceptance as thinking in something nobody thought before means uncertainty and its related risks to have something going wrong when implementing the idea.

    So, good entrepreneurs balance the level or risk and innovativeness of the idea. Not necessarily new ideas are required to solve specific problems but current traditional 'on the shelf' solutions could be used. The criteria to be observed on this balance is how far the entrepreneur is willing to go to take the risk of implementing an innovative solution with the related uncertainty price against the benefits of a non-creative solution.

             Marcos Hashimoto
    * (55-11) 4504-2300 - ext 2713
    * Entrepreneurship Center
    * Ibmec Sao Paulo - Brazil
    * MarcosH@isp.edu.br

    www.ibmecsp.edu.br       Quatá st, 300 - Vila Olimpia - SP     

    -----Mensagem original-----
    De: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [mailto:ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] Em nome de Chris Barlow
    Enviada em: quarta-feira, 6 de dezembro de 2006 17:00
    Para: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Assunto: Re: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Most of my life has been spent in teaching people about how to be
    creative, and entrepreneurs certainly use creativity to make up for lack
    of resources, but in fact, and entrepreneurs goal should be to minimize
    creativity.

    Don't invent anything you can buy off the shelf.

    Save your creative energies for the strategically advantageous factors.

    This is why the naturally creative can be overwhelmed by
    entrepreneurship.  They have the bad habit of being creative with
    everything.
    --
    Christopher M. Barlow, PhD
    The Co-Creativity Institute
    551 Roosevelt Road #112
    Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
    Voice: (630) 221-9456
    mailto://barlow@cocreativity.com
    http://www.cocreativity.com

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  • 4.  RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Posted 12-07-2006 07:53
    Creativity actually has two roles in entrepreneurship.

    "Doing' the entrepreneurship is an action process, a project, an
    operation, that can benefit from creatively seeking new and better ways.

    But there is another, more critical role -- spotting entrepreneurial
    opportunity.

    Basically, the world is constantly changing in ways that make new things
    possible. Many cool opportunities are blocked by some last factor. All
    well informed people know that particular innovation is "impossible".

    When the critical change happens in technology, politics, law,
    economics, or the "will of the people", the possibility can be there a
    long time before someone notices.

    This "noticing" is THE critical role of entrepreneurs. It requires a
    special creative ability.

    Lots of people can set up companies and get financing.

    Not as many see the emerging potentials in the world.

    This is a skill which can be learned and practiced.

    The higher level of functioning here is to prepare people to work in
    multi-perspective or cross-functional groups to discover possibilities
    based in critical changes in different knowledge domains.


    > This is exactly what I think, Chris.The subject (creativity) seems to have gained a strong popularity in
    days where innovation became the synonymous of competitiveness.
    >
    > In my opinion, new ideas have always some relation to risk acceptance
    >
    as thinking in something nobody thought before means uncertainty and its
    related risks to have something going wrong when implementing the idea.
    >
    > So, good entrepreneurs balance thelevel or risk and innovativeness of the idea. Not necessarily new ideas
    are required to solve specific problems but current traditional 'on the
    shelf' solutions could be used. The criteria to be observed on this
    balance is how far the entrepreneur is willing to go to take the risk of
    implementing an innovative solution with the related uncertainty price
    against the benefits of a non-creative solution.
    >
    > Marcos Hashimoto
    > * (55-11) 4504-2300 - ext 2713
    > * Entrepreneurship Center
    > * Ibmec Sao Paulo - Brazil
    > * MarcosH@isp.edu.br


    --
    Christopher M. Barlow, PhD
    The Co-Creativity Institute
    551 Roosevelt Road #112
    Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
    Voice: (630) 221-9456
    mailto://barlow@cocreativity.com
    http://www.cocreativity.com

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  • 5.  RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Posted 12-07-2006 15:31
    Hiya all,
     
    I too am of the firm belief that the entrepreneurial orientation requires a certain degree of creativity - not the be all and end all - but a element.
     
    I have been teaching entrepreneurship now for about 10 years, oh I know not long considering..... But in that time I have moved away from business plans and towards less mechanical aspects.
     
    I place an emphasis on strategy.
     
    I run two Undergraduate courses and one graduate course.
     
    In my undergrad entrepreneurial strategy course I am utilising the fourth  crusade and Tucker. 
     
    My other undergrad course has the title "entrepreneurship creativity and innovation.  I have been attempting to teach about creativity for the last five years.
     
    I am happy to share overheads and course structures with anyone who is interested.  I am always open to new stuff.
     
    I am a bit suspect about the need to measure creativity. 
     
    I must say however that I do not encourage students to think outside the box - for that assumes a box to start with.
     
    Have good weekend and enjoy? the holidays.
     
    Kind Regards
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [mailto:ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Marcos Hashimoto
    Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 11:19 a.m.
    To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [ENTREP] RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    I believe divergent thinking should be seen as a challenge to Business Schools pretending to teach entrepreneurship. Business Plans became the basic common content of entrepreneurship disciplines and it is now clear that it represents just one of the tools to teach entrepreneurship but real e-ship education should go beyond this. Competences like risk taking behavior or perseverance are very difficult or maybe impossible to teach, but creative thinking techniques are not far from educators possibilities, although require distinct skills from regular academic teachers as the practice of ‘thinking-out-of-the-box’ needs unusual teaching methods.

     

    I am currently developing a 24 hrs creativity course to grad and undergrad students and would appreciate to exchange ideas on how to deliver such kind of course to achieve the best results on their capacity to have ideas and identify business opportunities.

     

    Marcos Hashimoto
    ( (55-11) 4504-2300 - ext 2713
    1     Entrepreneurship Center
    * MarcosH@isp.edu.br

    www.ibmecsp.edu.br

    Quata st, 300 - Vila Olimpia - SP

     

    De: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [mailto:ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] Em nome de Norris Krueger
    Enviada em: terça-feira, 5 de dezembro de 2006 16:36
    Para: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Assunto: Re: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

     

    Ricardo - I would suggest contacting Lisa Gundry at DePaul; she knows more about this than about anyone. (Also, Jill Kickul @ Miami and Jeff Stamp @ UND; lgundry@depaul.edu, kickuljr@muohio.edu, jeff.stamp@mail.business.und.edu - Jeff's most recent work is danged fascinating) I feel rather cheeky responding, given their expertise, LOL.

    Measuring creativity in any population can obviously be a challenge. Jack Savidge makes a great point that "creativity" to be a productive quality will vary across the lifecycle. Kirton's measure of creative *style* is intriguing, though it's essentially a commercial project. [There have been studies using Kirton such as Buttner, et al.] One could be highly creative in terms of path-breaking radical innovation, yet awful at incremental ideas -and vice-versa. Creativity at divergent thinking can differ mightily from creativity at convergent thinking.

    If you are assessing style (type of creativity rather than quantity) you might also look at Allinson & Hayes's Cognitive Style measure. Keith Brigham [kbrigham@ba.ttu.edu ] has done a lot with that as has Eugene Sadler-Smith [e.sadler-smith@surrey.ac.uk]. Dr. Kickul & I have used CSI very productively too.

    As for measuring?
    The classic Torrence approach measures creativity on multiple dimensions. [Lisa/Jill/Jeff, if I screw this up, bail me out! LOL] After eliciting ideas ("how many things can you do with a pencil?") you can judge the fluency (sheer number of ideas), novelty (number of unique ideas) and utility (assess the value of the ideas) - one can also ask judges to assess how 'big' or how 'radical/incremental' the ideas are.

    Training in divergent thinking tends to increase all these dimensions, even if it's just "how to brainstorm 101". For example, in the classroom I've provided brief scenarios, then asked students to ideate (then measure a <st1:personname style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" w:st="on" productid="la Torrence">la Torrence</st1:personname>) -and look at what drives the quantity and especially quality of the ideas. Self-efficacy in the scenario situation seems to be a big driver, about as powerful as the training at divergent thinking.

    Good luck!
    Norris

    On 11/29/06, Ricardo Jesús Bolaños Barrera <ricardob@itesm.mx> wrote:

    Those any one has an instrument to measure creativity in the entrepreneur?

     

    Not the innovation in the business, but the creativity in the person.

     

    Best regards

    Ing. Ricardo B olaños Barrera ( ricardob@itesm.mx)
    Director de <st1:personname style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" w:st="on" productid="la Incubadora">la Incubadora</st1:personname> de Empresas
    División de Posgrados e Investigacion
    Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México


    Teléfono: (5255) 5864.5555 extensión 3464
    Fax: (5255) 5864.5779
    enlace-intercampus: 80.236.3464,
    http://www.itesm.mx

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    Teams / Entrepreneurship Northwest
    (208) 440-3747
    http://mg.boisestate.edu/teams_krueger
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  • 6.  RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Posted 12-08-2006 00:44
    I think it is a stretch to say that opportunity recognition requires a
    special creative ability. Some individuals simply happen to possess the
    right prior knowledge to see an opportunity that others cannot. Their
    prior knowledge might enable them to see only a narrow range of
    opportunities, but they get lucky when an opportunity happens to appear
    in their narrow range. Equally important is the 'something' (risk
    tolerance? proactiveness?) that causes some individuals to act when
    other do not.

    Maybe serial entrepreneurs have some kind of special creative ability.

    -Ben Powell


    Quoting Chris Barlow <chrisbarlow@COCREATIVITY.COM>:

    > Creativity actually has two roles in entrepreneurship.
    >
    > "Doing' the entrepreneurship is an action process, a project, an
    > operation, that can benefit from creatively seeking new and better
    > ways.
    >
    > But there is another, more critical role -- spotting entrepreneurial
    >
    > opportunity.
    >
    > Basically, the world is constantly changing in ways that make new
    > things
    > possible. Many cool opportunities are blocked by some last factor.
    > All
    > well informed people know that particular innovation is
    > "impossible".
    >
    > When the critical change happens in technology, politics, law,
    > economics, or the "will of the people", the possibility can be there
    > a
    > long time before someone notices.
    >
    > This "noticing" is THE critical role of entrepreneurs. It requires a
    >
    > special creative ability.
    >
    > Lots of people can set up companies and get financing.
    >
    > Not as many see the emerging potentials in the world.
    >
    > This is a skill which can be learned and practiced.
    >
    > The higher level of functioning here is to prepare people to work in
    >
    > multi-perspective or cross-functional groups to discover
    > possibilities
    > based in critical changes in different knowledge domains.
    >
    >
    > > This is exactly what I think, Chris.The subject (creativity) seems
    > to have gained a strong popularity in
    > days where innovation became the synonymous of competitiveness.
    > >
    > > In my opinion, new ideas have always some relation to risk
    > acceptance
    > >
    > as thinking in something nobody thought before means uncertainty and
    > its
    > related risks to have something going wrong when implementing the
    > idea.
    > >
    > > So, good entrepreneurs balance thelevel or risk and innovativeness
    > of the idea. Not necessarily new ideas
    > are required to solve specific problems but current traditional 'on
    > the
    > shelf' solutions could be used. The criteria to be observed on this
    > balance is how far the entrepreneur is willing to go to take the risk
    > of
    > implementing an innovative solution with the related uncertainty
    > price
    > against the benefits of a non-creative solution.
    > >
    > > Marcos Hashimoto
    > > * (55-11) 4504-2300 - ext 2713
    > > * Entrepreneurship Center
    > > * Ibmec Sao Paulo - Brazil
    > > * MarcosH@isp.edu.br
    >
    >
    > --
    > Christopher M. Barlow, PhD
    > The Co-Creativity Institute
    > 551 Roosevelt Road #112
    > Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
    > Voice: (630) 221-9456
    > mailto://barlow@cocreativity.com
    > http://www.cocreativity.com
    >
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  • 7.  RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Posted 12-08-2006 11:23
    Serial entrepreneurs are driven by (1) wanting to get it right after a
    failure, or (2) they did get it right and now want to do it again, but
    mostly, (3) having done it right and succeeded, they are driven to again
    live to their own legend. They become skilled at their craft of shaping
    ideas, innovation or opportunities to then know how to add value through the
    start-up wickets to commercialization. Entrepreneur once - very high risk,
    skilled builder - many times.

    Jack Savidge
    UCSD

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    entrepreneurs

    I think it is a stretch to say that opportunity recognition requires a
    special creative ability. Some individuals simply happen to possess the
    right prior knowledge to see an opportunity that others cannot. Their prior
    knowledge might enable them to see only a narrow range of opportunities, but
    they get lucky when an opportunity happens to appear in their narrow range.
    Equally important is the 'something' (risk tolerance? proactiveness?) that
    causes some individuals to act when other do not.

    Maybe serial entrepreneurs have some kind of special creative ability.

    -Ben Powell


    Quoting Chris Barlow <chrisbarlow@COCREATIVITY.COM>:

    > Creativity actually has two roles in entrepreneurship.
    >
    > "Doing' the entrepreneurship is an action process, a project, an
    > operation, that can benefit from creatively seeking new and better
    > ways.
    >
    > But there is another, more critical role -- spotting entrepreneurial
    >
    > opportunity.
    >
    > Basically, the world is constantly changing in ways that make new
    > things possible. Many cool opportunities are blocked by some last
    > factor.
    > All
    > well informed people know that particular innovation is "impossible".
    >
    > When the critical change happens in technology, politics, law,
    > economics, or the "will of the people", the possibility can be there
    > a long time before someone notices.
    >
    > This "noticing" is THE critical role of entrepreneurs. It requires a
    >
    > special creative ability.
    >
    > Lots of people can set up companies and get financing.
    >
    > Not as many see the emerging potentials in the world.
    >
    > This is a skill which can be learned and practiced.
    >
    > The higher level of functioning here is to prepare people to work in
    >
    > multi-perspective or cross-functional groups to discover possibilities
    > based in critical changes in different knowledge domains.
    >
    >
    > > This is exactly what I think, Chris.The subject (creativity) seems
    > to have gained a strong popularity in
    > days where innovation became the synonymous of competitiveness.
    > >
    > > In my opinion, new ideas have always some relation to risk
    > acceptance
    > >
    > as thinking in something nobody thought before means uncertainty and
    > its related risks to have something going wrong when implementing the
    > idea.
    > >
    > > So, good entrepreneurs balance thelevel or risk and innovativeness
    > of the idea. Not necessarily new ideas are required to solve specific
    > problems but current traditional 'on the shelf' solutions could be
    > used. The criteria to be observed on this balance is how far the
    > entrepreneur is willing to go to take the risk of implementing an
    > innovative solution with the related uncertainty price against the
    > benefits of a non-creative solution.
    > >
    > > Marcos Hashimoto
    > > * (55-11) 4504-2300 - ext 2713
    > > * Entrepreneurship Center
    > > * Ibmec Sao Paulo - Brazil
    > > * MarcosH@isp.edu.br
    >
    >
    > --
    > Christopher M. Barlow, PhD
    > The Co-Creativity Institute
    > 551 Roosevelt Road #112
    > Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
    > Voice: (630) 221-9456
    > mailto://barlow@cocreativity.com
    > http://www.cocreativity.com
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  • 8.  RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Posted 12-08-2006 12:34
    Ben--

    I totally agree that knowledge matters, and that some people are lucky
    enough to have the right combination...

    ... but given that knowledge, there seems to still be a difference in
    the flexibility of thinking to see the new possibilities.

    > I think it is a stretch to say that opportunity recognition requires a
    > special creative ability. Some individuals simply happen to possess the
    > right prior knowledge to see an opportunity that others cannot. Their
    > prior knowledge might enable them to see only a narrow range of
    > opportunities, but they get lucky when an opportunity happens to appear
    > in their narrow range. Equally important is the 'something' (risk
    > tolerance? proactiveness?) that causes some individuals to act when
    > other do not.
    >
    > Maybe serial entrepreneurs have some kind of special creative ability.
    >
    > -Ben Powell


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    The Co-Creativity Institute
    551 Roosevelt Road #112
    Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
    Voice: (630) 221-9456
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    http://www.cocreativity.com

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  • 9.  RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Posted 12-11-2006 11:06

    How exactly could we define 'incremental idea'?

     

    What amount of technology is required to be considered an innovation rather than just an incremental idea?

     

    Isn't DVD an incremental idea of the VHS technology to record images and sounds?

     

    Could MP3 be considered an innovation in music digital format or just an incremental idea?

     

    Would a new immunization medicine for Aids be considered an incremental idea on how to treat the disease?

     

    Can't we use the same arguments for blogs, IP phones, digital cameras and other technologies?

     

    Marcos Hashimoto
    ( (55-11) 4504-2300 - Ext 2713
    1     Entrepreneurship Center
    * MarcosH@isp.edu.br

    www.ibmecsp.edu.br

    Rua Quata, 300 - Vila Olimpia - SP

     

    De: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [mailto:ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] <st1:personname productid="Em nome de Norris Krueger" w:st="on">Em nome de Norris Krueger</st1:personname>
    Enviada em: quinta-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2006 20:06
    Para: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Assunto: Re: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

     

    Hi, Lisa- I was hoping you'd join the party!  (Great thread, everyone -thanks!)

    There is even a measure out there of self-efficacy at divergent thinking - though it looked unwieldy (waaay too many items). IIRC, the finding were that self-efficacy at DT was a better predictor of DT than anything else, including whether or not they'd had explicit creativity training.

    We are also more creative in situations where we feel confident (self-efficacy in that situation) -- confidence plus ambivalence sounds like a potent combo.

    Maybe there's a need to develop a useful measure of self-efficacy at specific pieces ( e.g., the mention above opportunity identification versus opportunity exploitation?)

    Given the CSI & KAI, I'd think we also need to avoid confounding creative-ness and creative style. Radical/discontinuous idea generation are probably operating under different scripts & schemas than generating incremental ideas.

    Not sure where this piece of trivia fits in, but I remember a study that showed most people do not think of incremental ideas as "creativity" - I am only "creative" if I write a sonata or design a new car, etc.

    On 12/7/06, Gundry, Lisa <LGUNDRY@depaul.edu> wrote:

    This is a very interesting question. While it is challenging to observe creativity itself, there have been some useful measures developed to assess "process" as well as "outcomes" of creativity.  For example, Amabile and others have developed methods to collect daily incidents, events, interactions, etc. that transpire in the workplace. The narratives are content analyzed by experts and then categorized. Others, such as Kurtzberg (a recent article in the Creativity Research Journal) and Hargardon have proposed that if individuals feel creative, and perceive themselves to be creative and imaginative, then they are likely to behave that way.  Such a "positive" feeling about one's own creativity is likely to be related to self-efficacy. Therefore, measures of self-efficacy (Cox, Mueller, & Moss, among others) could be useful here.  The relationship between emotion and creativity is at the center of Fong's (AMJ, 2006) article, in which she reports that the state of emotional ambivalence (experiencing both positive and negative emotions) promotes creativity. She used measures including Larson's (2001, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology). This could be interesting applied to a sample of entrepreneurs, since feelings of ambivalence may occur throughout the new venture creation process!

     

    Another assessment of creativity was used in a recent article by Ames & Runco (Creativity & Innovation Management Journal, vol. 14, 2005), in which successful entrepreneurs' "ideational tendencies" were measured, along with the fluency (sheer number of ideas generated) and the originality of those ideas.  

    The "tendencies" measure seems especially intriguing. It's possible that measures of cognitive style, such as the CSI (Cognitive Style Index, Allinson & Hayes, published in the Journal of Management Studies in 1996) would be interesting applied to the study of linkages between creativity & entrepreneurship. For example, people who have an intuitive cognitive style are attracted to solving problems (and embracing opportunities?) that are unstructured and ambiguous.

     

    Finally, there are some interesting contextual measures of creativity, that get at the environment in which individuals do their work, such as the degree of team supportiveness (openness to ideas, free-flow of communication, using others' input as a springboard for more effective ideation, etc. ) that could be applied from measures of creativity in large organizations to the entrepreneurial setting. Since entrepreneurs may frequently "bounce ideas off" partners, investors, advisors, etc., team measures could be useful.  With more attention being paid to the deliberate nature of creativity (i.e., the use and value of structured approaches and tools), it would be interesting to observe entrepreneurs' knowledge/use of these and the extent to which these enable them to more effectively pursue opportunities and solve problems.  It's been my experience that most entrepreneurship students have very little knowledge of these methods, and that when they learn and apply them, they generate much more interesting (and potentially breakthrough) ideas – not just in the opportunity development stage, but throughout the venture life cycle.

     

     

    Lisa Gundry, Ph.D.

    Professor of Management

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  • 10.  RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Posted 12-11-2006 13:01

    On this issue of risk;  It is important to realize that entrepreneurs make decisions based upon perceived risk.  On lookers, including entrepreneurship researchers, often try to determine actual risk by surrogate measures and these two concepts of risk are not equivalent.   Also there is the issue of the entrepreneur's aspirations.  Firm performance that is above the entrepreneur's aspiration level tends to shift the firm to more of an exploitation direction and a firm that is underperforming the entrepreneur's aspiration levels tends to take on riskier behavior.  Baum et al. (2005) "Dancing with strangers: Aspiration performance and the search for underwriting syndication partners," Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 50, No. 4  page 536 + and Greve (1998), "Performance, aspirations and risky organizational change," Administrative Quarterly Vol. 43, No. 1 Pages 58+

    Dick Teach

     

    From: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [mailto:ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Marcos Hashimoto
    Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 7:25 AM
    To: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [ENTREP] RES: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

     

    This is exactly what I think, Chris. The subject (creativity) seems to have gained a strong popularity in days where innovation became the synonymous of competitiveness.

    In my opinion, new ideas have always some relation to risk acceptance as thinking in something nobody thought before means uncertainty and its related risks to have something going wrong when implementing the idea.

    So, good entrepreneurs balance the level or risk and innovativeness of the idea. Not necessarily new ideas are required to solve specific problems but current traditional 'on the shelf' solutions could be used. The criteria to be observed on this balance is how far the entrepreneur is willing to go to take the risk of implementing an innovative solution with the related uncertainty price against the benefits of a non-creative solution.

             Marcos Hashimoto
    * (55-11) 4504-2300 - ext 2713
    * Entrepreneurship Center
    * Ibmec Sao Paulo - Brazil
    * MarcosH@isp.edu.br

    www.ibmecsp.edu.br       Quatá st, 300 - Vila Olimpia - SP     

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    De: Entrepreneurship Division Listserv [mailto:ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] Em nome de Chris Barlow
    Enviada em: quarta-feira, 6 de dezembro de 2006 17:00
    Para: ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Assunto: Re: [ENTREP] How to measure creativity in entrepreneurs

    Most of my life has been spent in teaching people about how to be
    creative, and entrepreneurs certainly use creativity to make up for lack
    of resources, but in fact, and entrepreneurs goal should be to minimize
    creativity.

    Don't invent anything you can buy off the shelf.

    Save your creative energies for the strategically advantageous factors.

    This is why the naturally creative can be overwhelmed by
    entrepreneurship.  They have the bad habit of being creative with
    everything.
    --
    Christopher M. Barlow, PhD
    The Co-Creativity Institute
    551 Roosevelt Road #112
    Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
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