Article | REF: AG5210 V2

Creativity in engineering

Author: Luc E. BRUNET

Publication date: June 10, 2021, Review date: June 11, 2021

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2. Creativity toolbox

Creativity methods are as varied as their authors' ideas of them. They do, however, share common characteristics, and are even identical in apparently different forms. Because they are simple and accessible without technical knowledge, brainstorming methods and their derivatives form a heterogeneous whole. Linguistic approaches were then used, in a predominantly industrial context. Today, approaches are being developed in the context of managerial practices.

2.1 General principles

Creativity methods have identical goals:

  • to clarify the objectives or technical objects;

  • freeing thought from the shackles of everyday life;

  • encourage the emergence of non-trivial...

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