Instead of forcing creativity, recognise when the structure itself is limiting new ideas, writes Barbara Salopek ...

There are many different roads to innovation. James Dyson developed his vacuum cleaner by noticing an analogy between vacuum cleaners and sawmills. George DeMestral created Velcro after looking at ...

How to overcome “functional fixedness” and other biases that get in the way of creativity by Tony McCaffrey and Jim Pearson On the evening of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg ...

If a buddy of yours grew up in Texas and the temperature dipped to 50 degrees, they’d likely grab a sweater. If you grew up in Minnesota, though, 50 would probably seem like shorts weather. Why the ...