Instead of forcing creativity, recognise when the structure itself is limiting new ideas, writes Barbara Salopek Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that limits our ability to see novel uses for ...

There are many different roads to innovation. James Dyson developed his vacuum cleaner by noticing an analogy between vacuum cleaners and sawmills. George DeMestral created Velcro after looking at ...

If a buddy of yours grew up in Texas and the temperature dipped to 50 degrees, they’d likely grab a sweater. If you grew up in Minnesota, though, 50 would probably seem like shorts weather. Why the ...