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This paper describes a course in innovation offered to students at the University of Magdeburg in Germany. The course is based on the premise that idea generation can be viewed as a methodical discipline, and offers a unique combination of the psychological framework for creative thinking, the business background for innovation and state-of-the-art creativity techniques. The course derives much of...
This paper describes a new algorithm for the evaluation of alternatives by a group of decision makers according to multiple criteria. The algorithm is motivated by the need to quickly evaluate a large number of ideas in the early stages of an innovation process, when little or no information about the ideas is available. The algorithm is based on a Markov chain model which is derived from pairwise...
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