Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the chapters / Janet Chan and Terry Thomas -- Research on creativity. Researching creativity and creativity research / Janet Chan -- Sources and conditions of scientific creativity / Søren Harnow Klausen -- Presences and absences: a critical analysis of recent research about creativity in visual arts education / Enid Zimmerman -- Way of conceptualizing and assessing creativity. What is a creative idea? Little-c versus Big-C creativity / Dean Keith Simonton -- Creativity as a system in action / Phillip McIntyre -- Marxism and creativity / Jim McGuigan -- Creativity as designer capitalism: Deleuze/Guattarian interventions / jan jagodzinski -- Playing to the gallery: myth method and complexity in the creative process / Chris Bilton -- Attributing creativity in science and engineering: the discourses of discovery, invention and breakthrough / David Philip Miller -- For a critical creativity: the radical imagination of Cornelius Castoriadis / Christian De Cock, Alf Rehn and David Berry -- Creativity in schools: delusions, realities and challenges / John Steers -- The lived experience of a contemporary creative identification / Stephanie Taylor

Understanding malevolent creativity / David H. Cropley, James C. Kaufman and Arthur J. Cropley -- Rating the creativity of products / David H. Cropley and James C. Kaufman -- Issues in conceptions of creativity and creativity assessment in music education / Pamela Burnard and Anne Power -- From 'national creativity' to social recognition and success in the visual arts: a sociological perspective on rankings of the 'top 100 artists in the world' / Alain Quemin -- The creative process. Creative thinking: processes, strategies and knowledge / Michael D. Mumford, Vincent Giorgini, Carter Gibson and Jensen Mecca -- Time and the composition: creativity in modern and contemporary works of art / Terry Smith -- Experimental research in the digital media arts / Tim Barker -- The chances of chance -- challenging creativity by chance and collaboration / Karlheinz Essl -- The role of inhibition and perception in artistic creativity: a cognitive explanation / Emery Schubert -- Practices of creativity. The ontology of creative performance and the aesthetics of design / Neil C.M. Brown -- How to start an art centre / Vivien Johnson

The 'illusio' of the creative life: case studies of emerging artists / Kerry Thomas -- Making a living from creativity: careers, employment and work in the creative industries / Doris Ruth Eikhof -- Authorship and collaborative creativity in new media art / Roanna Gonsalves and Janet Chan -- Dochaku: artistic evolution at the confluence of cultures / Toshiko Oiyama -- Re-creating performance art: the rise of re-enactment / Edward Scheer -- Conditions for creativity. Creative encounters and collaborative agency in science, technology and innovation / Reijo Miettinen -- What's stopping us? Barriers to creativity and innovation in schooling across Europe / Shakuntala Banaji, Sue Cranmer and Carlo Perrotta -- Copyright as an incentive system for creativity? The case of contemporary visual arts / Nobuko Kawashima -- Leading/managing creativity. European cultural policies and the 'creative industries' turn / Pierre-Michel Menger -- How to get the most creativity and innovation out of groups and teams / Paul B. Paulus and Runa Korde -- Creativity in R & D / Sven Hemlin, Lisa Olsson and Leif Denti -- Leading science: the role of research leaders in scientific creativity / Janet Chan