Includes bibliographical references and index.

The cognitive science of innovation tools / Arthur B. Markman and Kristin L. Wood -- On "out-of-the-box" thinking in creativity / Robert W. Weisberg -- "Putting blinkers on a blind man" : providing cognitive support for creative processes with environmental cues / Bo T. Christensen and Christian D. Schunn -- Thinking with sketches / Barbara Tversky and Masaki Suwa -- Supporting innovation by promoting analogical reasoning / Arthur B. Markman ... [et al.] -- Constraints and consumer creativity / C. Page Moreau and Darren W. Dahl -- The development and evaluation of tools for creativity / Steven M. Smith ... [et al.] -- ConceptNets for flexible access to knowledge / Thomas B. Ward -- Innovation through transformational design / Vikramjit Singh ... [et al.] -- Introduction of design enabling tools : development, validation, and lessons learned / Joshua D. Summers, Srinivasan Anandan, and Sudhakar Teegavarapu -- Supporting innovative construction of explanatory scientific models / Will Bridewell, Stuart R. Borrett, and Pat Langley.

"It is widely known that innovation is crucial to sustain success in business, government, and engineering. But capturing the effective means of fostering innovation remains elusive. How can organizations actively promote innovation, which arises from a complex combination of cognition and domain expertise? Researchers across an array of fields are studying innovation, with exciting new findings suggesting that science is beginning to understand how it can be cultivated. It is now more important than ever for seemingly distant fields to share conclusions and, in concert, translate them into viable applications. In this unique and exciting collaboration, engineers, cognitive scientists, psychologists, computer scientists, and marketers explore the practical methods that support innovation and creative design, from different ways of thinking and conceptualizing to computer-based tools. The authors present research on processes as well as on the evaluation of existing methods. Their lessons drawn are at the forefront of the interdisciplinary movement to use science to help organizations thrive."--Jacket.