Creativity and Innovative Technologies in Product Design and Development

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to present the state-of-the-art, current challenges, and future trends in innovative technologies selected to solve problems and challenges in product design and development phases. Original contributions describing recent findings in theory, methodologies, and applications in the field of creativity and innovation techniques for product design and development are welcome. The target audience is researchers and engineers who need to apply state-of-the-art and reliable creativity and innovative technologies in product design and development industries. The target authors are authors who work closely with industry, use creativity and innovative methods, and have performed work of a sufficiently high quality to be published in the established journal Sustainability.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• inventorying techniques;
• associative techniques;
• confrontational techniques;
• provocative techniques;
• intuitive techniques;
• analytic–systematic techniques;
• creative problem solving;
• dimensional analysis;
• SWOT analysis; and
• engineering and visualization.

Dr. Kelvin Wong
Dr. Simon Fong
Dr. Yu Lu
Prof. Dr. Dhanjoo N. Ghista
Guest Editors

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