Facilitating the Innovation Process
Ruth Small, Meredith Professor at Syracuse University’s iSchool, and Don Kelly, chief executive of Intellectual Asset Management Associates, LLC, have been awarded an Enitiative eTeam grant for their study, Facilitating the Innovation Process: Motivational Influences and Information Requirements.
The research will probe the factors that contribute to or support inventive thinking and the innovation creation process and, particularly, (1) what role information seeking skills, resources, and technologies play in supporting that process and related activities and (2) what human and other influences motivate that process. A pilot study involving surveys and interviews of adult and child inventors and entrepreneurs is underway. Enitiative funding will allow Small and Kelly to extend this study into public libraries.