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TANG Min received her PhD in psychology from the University of Munich and is now professor in International Management and Director of the Institute for Creativity & Innovation at the University of Applied Management, Germany. She is the initiator and manager of a series of creativity training programs funded by EU, BMBF, or DAAD. Her research topics include the systems approach to creativity and innovation, management of creativity and innovation, team creativity, and cross-cultural studies.
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October 2008 - July 2016
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October 2006 - February 2010
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The highly efficient, pollution-free and degradable biomass-based adsorbents used for the purification of wastewater are currently being highlighted in the research. Bamboo is an excellent raw material for pulp production due to its characteristics of fast growth, wide distribution and high cellulose content. In this study, a tannin/chitosan/bamboo...
The present study demonstrated a freeze-drying-carbonization method to synthesize silver nanoparticle-modified bamboo-based carbon aerogels to remove formaldehyde. The bamboo-based carbon aerogel (BCA) has the advantages of controllable pore size and rich oxygen-containing groups, which can provide a good foundation for surface modification. BCA ca...
For much of 2020, countries around the world fought against the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries went into lockdown to control the fast spread of the virus. The unusual restrictions and confinement of the lockdown brought about new challenges for people’s everyday lives. With flexibility, adaptability, and problem-solving at the core of its nature...
Creativity and its influences and outcomes in the workplace are a long-standing and often-studied research topic in psychological and social sciences. However, research on the factors that influence young peoples’ intentions to pursue a creative career seems rare. Drawing on social cognitive theories, this study investigates how creative mindsets,...
Kreativität und Innovation spielen eine immer wichtigere Rolle für die Weltwirtschaft und für die erfolgreiche Entwicklung eines Staates. China und Deutschland haben eine lange Tradition in der innovativen Zusammenarbeit in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft, allerdings wurde die Bedeutung und die Herausforderungen der deutsch-chinesischen Zusammenarbeit...
Der Ausbruch der Coronavirus-Pandemie hat starke Auswirkungen auf die globale Wirtschaft, Unternehmen, Familien und Einzelpersonen in unterschiedlichen Ländern. Wirkt sich die Corona-Pandemie auch auf die deutsch-chinesische Beziehung und Zusammenarbeit aus? Was können beide Seiten tun, um diesen Herausforderungen zu begegnen? Hat uns die Krise kre...
Creativity and innovation are important drivers of personal development, economic growth, and social progress. Managing people and organizations to promote creativity and innovation is essential if we want to realize the full creative potential of individuals and achieve the sustainable development of organizations. The current chapter draws upon s...
In kaum einem anderen Land sind Soziale Medien so präsent wie in China. WeChat, TikTok (Douyin), QQ, QZone und Weibo beeinflussen dort das Leben in weiten Teilen. Ob zum Bezahlen von Rechnungen, Bestellen von Lebensmitteln, Buchen von Hotels, Zügen und Taxis – wer den Alltag in China meistern will, kommt um Soziale Medien nicht mehr herum. Dieses K...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about unprecedented uncertainty and challenges to the worldwide economy and people’s everyday life. Anecdotal and scientific evidence has documented the existence of a positive relationship between the experience of crisis and creativity. Though this appears to be ubiquitous, the crisis-c...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about unprecedented uncertainty and challenges to the worldwide economy and people’s everyday life. Anecdotal and scientific evidence has documented the existence of a positive relationship between the experience of crisis and creativity. Though this appears to be ubiquitous, the crisis-c...
In many contexts, whether for work, study or play, teams are widely used to carry out tasks, especially complex and creative tasks. Though metaanalyses have shown the benefits of diversity for team creativity, these benefits are almost exclusively accompanied by the challenges diversity poses to team effectiveness and creativity (e.g., conflicts, s...
Dieses Buch vermittelt deutschen Unternehmen grundlegende Einblicke in Chinas Wirtschaft mit einem speziellen Fokus auf Innovations- und Kreativitätsmanagement. China gilt als eine der Supermächte in der digitalen Transformation und in Schlüsseltechnologien, und auf dem Weg in die digitale Zukunft ist auch deutsches Know-how gefragt. Sowohl in Chin...
Background:
While empirical research on creativity has grown steadily over the past 35 years, teachers' beliefs about creativity and their implicit beliefs about teaching for creativity remains understudied, as well as cross-cultural examination of teacher beliefs in this area.
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This study explored the measurement invariance of beliefs abou...
Digitalization is transforming all facets of society, not just work environments, and in terms of educational contexts, the transformation is occurring with or without strategic initiatives that ensure ongoing quality of teaching and learning environments. Integration of technology into teaching and learning is not new, but the rapid rate and pace...
Interdisciplinarity and creativity bear interesting commonalities. Interdisciplinarity can be seen as a creative process of integrating disciplines to bridge gaps and create new combinations while creativity is a complex phenomenon which should be ideally studied and fostered through interdisciplinary collaborations. This entry focuses on the relat...
Interdisciplinarity and creativity bear interesting commonalities. Interdisciplinarity can be seen as a creative process of integrating disciplines to bridge gaps and create new combinations while creativity is a complex phenomenon which should be ideally studied and fostered through interdisciplinary collaborations. This entry focuses on the relat...
Teams are pervasive in the history of mankind. Particularly in our fast-growing modern society, teams composed of members from different cultures and disciplines are quite often used at the workplace. Though widely used, the effectiveness of teams is inconsistent. Meta-analyses report a double-edged effect of diversity on creativity and innovation,...
The current speech draws upon the sociocultural theories and compares the Chinese and German perceptions, expressions and evaluations of creativity and innovation. The speech starts with the definitions of culture, creativity, and innovation. Secondly, it reviews and analyses the classic and modern theories about Eastern and Western ways of thinkin...
Studies have shown an aesthetic salience among Western people’s perceptions of creative persons – the tendency to nominate celebrities from the artistic (including literary and philosophical) field as main representatives of creativity. This study was designed to replicate and extend the previous studies with the aim to test this phenomenon with a...
Two studies comparing Chinese and German samples by using work-related verbal creativity tasks examined the role of culture in creative expression thereby also exploring culture's potential influence on creativity judgements. In Study 1, German participants (N = 60) scored higher than Chinese respondents (N = 60) in a work-related unusual uses test...
Recent years have witnessed a series of studies of the nomination of the most creative persons using a cross-sectional design. Such studies only provide a "snapshot" of the creativity nomination phenomenon without being able to detect the temporal pattern of the nomination over time. The current study is among the first of such studies that use a t...
Studies have shown an aesthetic salience among the Western people – the tendency to nominate celebrities from the artistic field (including literature and philosophy) as the representatives of creativity (e.g., Yue, Bender, & Cheung, 2011). This study was designed to replicate and extend the previous studies with the aim to test this phenomenon wit...
The world we are living in is changing and developing at an unprecedented speed. The fast development of modern technology, the huge impact of knowledge and technology on everyday life and business, and the increasingly dependent global markets have posed more and more challenges to organizations, which cannot be solved by individuals alone. In suc...
Though creativity and innovation are indispensable from each other in any innovative process, they are traditionally positioned separately in both research and practical endeavors. We argue that a holistic approach that reunites creativity and innovation in both research and practice is one of the most promising approach to a better understanding o...
Though the importance of creativity and innovation has caught more and more attention in different fields, very seldom are theories and practice of creativity and innovation combined and compared. Zhou and Shalley (2008) noticed this separation, and urged that it is time to seriously consider how these two largely separate research streams can info...
The aim of this chapter is to introduce the 4P’s Model of Creativity (Rhodes, 1961) and to review its practical implications in different fields, including education, business, engineering, and others. According to this model, creativity can be viewed from four different perspectives: product, process, person and press of the environment. Thus, the...
In spite of the increasing awareness of the importance of creativity and innovation, scientific research into creativity and innovation is still non-mainstream due to the relatively short history of this field. In most cases, laypersons and scholars alike tend to use the words “creativity”, “innovation”, “creative” or “innovative” interchangeably....
Though in recent years the importance of creativity and innovation has caught more and more attention in different fields and countries, very seldom are these two closely related phenomena discussed within the scope of one book. Zhou and Shalley (2008) noticed the separation of the creativity and innovation studies, and urged that it is time to ser...
Training programs dealing with the management of creativity and innovation in an interdisciplinary and intercultural context are rare. This chapter focuses on the evaluation of the effective management of creativity and innovation (EMCI) ERASMUS intensive program (in the form of a summer school). The first part of this chapter gives a brief introdu...
The Handbook of the Management of Creativity and Innovation: Theory and Practice is a collection of theories and practices for the effective management of creativity and innovation, contributed by a group of European experts from the fields of psychology, education, business, engineering, and law. Adopting an interdisciplinary and intercultural app...
The present chapter reviews the literature published in both English and Chinese languages about creative self-efficacy (CSE) using samples from Chinese societies (mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore) for the time period of 2002–2016. The major findings are (1) CSE as an important correlate of creativity has been widely studied in both...
The present study evaluates the immediate and sustained effect of a two-week intensive program (IP) applying an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to increase creative self-efficacy (CSE) and creativity level of college students. Participants were 75 college students (59% females. M age = 24.98) from nine 1 different countries and four st...
This speech focuses on the sociocultural approach to creativity (SCAC) and its application in creativity training. The sociocultural approach will be introduced in comparison to the personality approach and the cognitive approach (Sawyer, 2012). Two cases will be illustrated as concrete examples of the application of the SCAC in creativity training...
With organizations becoming increasingly diverse, a great deal of attention has been called to the benefits and risks associated with diversity (for a review, Williams & O’Reilly,
1998). The merits and risks related to diversity and creativity need to be
put into consideration and the potential risks need to be managed carefully if we want
to use t...
In responding to Glăveanu’s critical views on the psychology of creativity, this commentary summarizes seminal work that has been carried out on creativity since 1950s. It underscores the value of the systems approach and discusses key methodological issues related to this approach, including creativity assessment, the necessity for multi-level ana...
The present study examines the factor structure of a Chinese version of the Revised Creativity Domain Questionnaire (CDQ-R; Kaufman, Waterstreet, Ailaouni, Whitcomb, Roe, & Riggs, 2009) as well as its relation to Big Five personality traits within a Chinese sample (N = 787). Analyses indicate the appropriateness of the Chinese version of the CDQ-R...
Previous studies have shown that students underestimated by teachers do not differ from overestimated students in terms of test performance and self-reported motivation.With reference to achievement motivation theory it should be examined whether the findings on motivation differ when a semi-projective test is used, which provides no incentive to p...
Even though green brand image is considered a pivotal asset of a company’s marketing strategy research has, so far, neglected the concept of green country image. We start addressing this research gap by examining the contributions of different country image facets (e.g., country personality) when predicting green country image. More specifically, w...
The current field of creativity stresses a systems approach and calls for the perspectives and experiences from different domains and cultures. The current paper introduces an upcoming Erasmus IP project dealing with the effective management of creativity and innovation. This interdisciplinary program combines expertise and practices from four diff...
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Social psychology of creativity calls for a systemic approach, which looks into not only personal but also environmental attributes of creativity. The current study focuses on Chinese young inventors (N=96, 59 boys and 37 girls, M age =13.3), who were part of a nation wide inventiveness competition in mainland China. It was found that
1/3 of the co...
The level of artistic creativity of Chinese students in Germany, Chinese domestic students, and German students was compared using two artistic creativity tasks. The Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) was used to judge the creative and technical level of the art work. The study found that: (1) Chinese students in Germany have not shown advantage...
The level of artistic creativity of Chinese students in Germany, Chinese domestic students, and German students was compared using two artistic creativity tasks. The Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) was used to judge the creative and technical level of the art work. The study found that: (1) Chinese students in Germany have not shown advantage...
In this article, scholars from Germany and China from the fields of psychology, education, business, and engineering who participated in a panel discussion about applied creativity across domains exchange their perceptions of creativity, their experiences of promoting creativity, as well as their views of cross-disciplinary approaches on creativity...
Human civilization is an accumulation of innovations, inventions, creations, and discoveries (Tan, 2000). Inventions are regarded as the ‘keystone’ and ‘life-blood’ of the existence of human society (Rossman, 1964). From candles to electric light bulbs, carriages to airbuses, letters to telegrams to emails, inventions pervade our lives. Despite the...
The level of artistic creativity of Chinese students in Germany, Chinese domestic students, and German students was compared using two artistic creativity tasks. The Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) was used to judge the creative and technical level of the art work. The study found that: (1) Chinese students in Germany have not shown advantage...
The focus of the current study is the individual and environmental attributes of inventiveness among children and adolescents. Research was conducted on the young inventors who were part of a nation-wide inventive ideationcontest for children and adolescents in P. R. China. A total of 621 (3
03 boys, 318 girls, Mage =13.9, SD =2.5) 4th to 12th grad...
Existing research reports the effect of colors on divergent thinking. Those in the blue condition demonstrate a higher mean creativity score than those in the red or neutral color condition. Similarly, those in the blue condition produce more creative uses than those in the red. Current work tests this research. The unusual uses test ("Please list...
A total of three hundred and fifteen (n = 315) gifted students from the 10th and 12th grade from the United States (n = 102), China (n = 125) and Germany (n = 88) were surveyed regarding their motivation and self‐regulation in chemistry learning. A 3×2×2 MANOVA revealed “nation” as having the largest major effect on these variables. The American gr...
Almost nobody would deny the importance of inventors and their inventions to the development of society. But to date, there are only very small number of empirical studies about inventiveness (e.g., Rossman, 1964; Weisberg, 1986, 1993; Henderson, 2004a, 2004b). Among them even less have focused on children and adolescents. China’s “1st Originality...
Extensive research evidence, especially from the field of international management (e.g. Maznevski 1994; Janssens and Brett 1997; DiStefano and Maznevski 2000; Maznevski and Chudoba 2000; de Dreu 2002; Polzer, Milton and Swann 2002; West 2002) has shown that any kind of diversity in work groups is a double-edged sword: it has the potential to impro...
This paper focuses on international teamworking issues that arose in the initial pilot projects of the eChina~UK Programme. The authors collected a range of data over a 3 year period, including written records of meetings and email exchanges. In addition, they conducted two rounds of in-depth interviews with all the primary team members. This paper...
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The purpose of this Research Topic is to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 crisis on creativity and innovation and vice versa – that is, the role of creativity and innovation in the fight against COVID-19, as well as their relationship to resilience and coping. In this special issue we collect articles that relate to any aspect of creativity and innovation under crisis situations, with a specific focus on understanding what is currently occurring with regard to the changes in society, our daily routines, and work life in response to COVID-19. The articles cover not only the determining factors of creativity and innovation in crisis (e. g. personal, situational, or environmental factors), but also the specific outcomes of creativity and innovation on personal, organizational, and social well-being.
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13833/creativity-and-innovation-in-times-of-crisis-covid-19
The outbreak of the COVID-19 disease has posed great challenges to the worldwide economy and people’s daily lives and will have far-reaching consequences beyond the spread of the disease. At the same time, crisis is also a strong driver of creativity and innovation. Indeed, if examined closely, one can already observe abundant creativity and innovation emerging at the national, institutional, organizational, and individual levels within the countries affected by COVID-19.
The purpose of this research project is to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 crisis on creativity and innovation and vice versa. Together with Roni Reiter-Palmon and Zorona Ivcevic, I launched a special issue in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. We welcome manuscripts from contributors around the globe to help us understand any aspect of creativity and innovation under crisis situations, and their coping function in dealing with crisis. We encourage submissions that examine not only the determining factors of creativity and innovation in crisis (e. g. personal, situational, or environmental factors), but also the specific outcomes of creativity and innovation on personal, organizational, and social well-being.
Welcome to share your studies with us in this special issue: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/13833/creativity-and-innovation-in-times-of-crisis-covid-19
The main goal of this project is to connect all academic lecturers and discussed the way how they can get the time and techniques to achieved their researches ... and how can they makes these researches useful and more benefit for their jobs as an academic lecturer.
