CINC Blog

Can you be innovative without being creative?

The term “Innovation” no doubt competes for the prize as “most frequently used buzzword of the 21st Century”. Whether it’s radical, fruga...

Metacognition – the director in you

Think of your mind as a movie set. If your thoughts are the actors then metacognition is the director. “Metacognition” is thinking about ...

What does awareness have to do with creativity?

Everything! Awareness is crucial to creativity. Despite common beliefs, creativity doesn't just happen. You absolutely have to know how c...

Brainables: second generation wearables

Mindsettr in the making, prototying using the ULTRACORTEX from the OpenBCI project Welcome to the future! We have a small secret for you:...

The Creativity Battle

Why we cannot reserve the concept of creativity for artists and marketers Being an academic creativity researcher, it is always interesti...

Collect creativity in one app

During the last couple of years CINC staff have been facilitating numerous workshops around the world. All equally interesting and exciti...

Why Start-ups Shouldn’t Grow up

Pablo Picasso once said: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after he grows up.” Many creative people tend ...

Neurocreativity Mini-series: a Coffee Cup on Wheels Sounds Crazy! But is it?

In the last post, we explored how pieces of information are stored in groups of neurons. Recall that when thinking of an object, many dif...

Neurocreativity Mini-series: an Apple, a Ferrari, and the Human Brain

The human brain functions on many structural levels, allowing us the ability to exploit sensory inputs like sight and sound to make simpl...

CINC's Summer Getaway in Bali

As the summer sun started to peek out of the clouds, we were a bit too eager to take breaks and enjoy the nice weather, but we knew we st...

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