
- Sources of scientific creativity
- Jang, Youngsun; Ko, Youngjoo
- Springer
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Sources of scientific creativity
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Sub Title | Participant observation of a public research institute in Korea |
Material Type | Articles |
Author(English) |
Jang, Youngsun; Ko, Youngjoo |
Publisher |
[Berlin, Germany] : Springer |
Date | 2017-01 |
Journal Title; Vol./Issue | Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity:vol. 3(no. 1) |
Pages | 16 |
Subject Country | South Korea(Asia and Pacific) |
Language | English |
File Type | Link |
Subject | Industry and Technology < Science/Technology |
Holding | Springer |
License | ![]() |
Abstract
This study aims to find the factors of scientists' creative thoughts by observing directly their laboratories in Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT). The participant observation was performed for 5 months from December 2013 through April 2014, and the research object was the lab which had been selected both as Top KRICT laboratory and Top National R&D Project. For in-depth examination, the target lab was supposed to be observed for a long time, taking part in the lab meetings, interviewing the researchers. From the interview data, Protocol analysis or Verbal data analysis was employed to analyze the recorded data. The research results are as follows. First, as several studies had suggested, the frequent use of analogies was verified as an important source for scientists' creative thoughts, in that those analogies were used for 12 times in 2 lab meetings, which was 6 times per each. (The rest omitted)