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Inventions and Scientific Discoveries: Impact of Designers’ Collaborations on Creativity. An Analysis Towards Fixation Effects

Part of: Collaborative Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2019

Quentin Plantec ,
Pascal Le Masson  and
Benoit Weil
Quentin Plantec*
Affiliation:
MINES ParisTech; Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI)
Pascal Le Masson
Affiliation:
MINES ParisTech;
Benoit Weil
Affiliation:
MINES ParisTech;
*
Contact: Plantec, Quentin, MINES ParisTech - PSL Université, Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle, Centre de Gestion Scientifique, i3 UMR CNRS 9217, France, quentin.plantec@mines-paristech.fr

Abstract

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Scientific discoveries and inventions have long been established as two distinct and sequential activities. It has nonetheless been showed that projects aiming at producing both scientific discoveries and inventions could record impressive results. Our investigations are focusing on the creativity of collaborations outputs: a first agent is entailed to design a scientific discovery and another one invention. We use fixation effects as a performance measurement indicator for creativity based on Design Theory. We propose a first set of elements that can be suffering from fixation effects in both invention and scientific models designers reasoning. We propose a series of defixed inputs that could be shared between both designers to overcome their fixation effects. We highlight that if partners are engaged in one-way knowledge transfer it can conduct to “fixation traps”. We define a set of restrictive conditions that could conduct to a “cross-defixation process”: both actors would be able to create conjoint new inventions and scientific models in the non-fixed design path. In particular this process does not required designers to be defixed before starting the collaboration.

Keywords

InnovationCreativityHuman behaviour in designScienceC-K design theory
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Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2019 , pp. 159 - 168
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