M 1 Flashcards
Entrepreneurship
the creation of new ventures, new products and new markets
Major concern of design cognition
to understand how designers select and deploy design strategies to navigate through uncertainty
firm adaptation parts
1.innovation
2.venturing
3. strategic renewal
The main characteristic of an entrepreneur
experience
(optimally entrepreneurs have been employed for already 10-12 years before starting a business
the definition of creativity in an entrepreneurial setting
Creativity= Novelty + Usefulness
What is suggested by Metacognition
by becoming aware of how we react we can instead use to decide to act differently
what drives metacognitive “switch” mechanism
fluctuating feelings of uncertainty
4Ps of Creative Model
Person
Process
Product
Press
metacognition
higher cognitive process responsible for development and selection for cognitive strategies
error of a third kind
solving the wrong problem by adopting a formulation that is either too narrow or inappropriate
breadth-first strategy
reduced to several sub-problems tackled a full time at a time
depth-first strategy
taking one top-level sub-problem and developing in in detail
problem-solution-co-evolution
the interplay between the problem formulation and solution conjecture while each informing the other
Problem formulation
spend time on reflecting what the problem is
Design strategies underlying metacognition
mental simulation
analogical reasoning
depth-first search