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  • Open Access
23 Citations
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21 January 2021

In recent years the importance of the creative economy has also characterised the international higher-education sector through specialised education, research and entrepreneurship. In this paper I apply and discuss the concept of spillovers as a rel...

(This article belongs to the Collection Cultural Crossovers and Social Sustainability)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,277 Views
7 Pages

Both teachers and students are concerned about choosing majors. The gap between initial student expectations and external circumstances might lead to inferior academic performance and higher dropout rates. The purpose of this study was to determine t...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of International Academic Symposium of Social Science 2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,371 Views
15 Pages

Urban Creative Sustainability: The Case of Lublin

  • Alina Betlej and
  • Tomas Kačerauskas

6 April 2021

The proposed research aims to investigate the concept of creative urban sustainability. We asked, what are the factors conditioning creativity in spaces where cultures meet in cities and how do they stimulate urban sustainable development. The empiri...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,117 Views
15 Pages

Are STEM Students Creative Thinkers?

  • Christabel Borg Preca,
  • Leonie Baldacchino,
  • Marie Briguglio and
  • Margaret Mangion

Scholarly research has increasingly examined the role of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education, and that of creativity as a transversal skill. However, far fewer studies have investigated the relationship between the two,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creativity, Intelligence, and Collaboration in 21st Century Education: An Interdisciplinary Challenge)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,221 Views
21 Pages

Creativity has been studied for a long time and it has become a more significant topic of research in educational fields in recent decades. The present paper outlines a multivariate approach to creativity and substantiates this approach by investigat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creativity, Intelligence, and Collaboration in 21st Century Education: An Interdisciplinary Challenge)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,140 Views
25 Pages

16 October 2021

The growing importance of creative knowledge workers as a resource of particular significance for the growth of organizations is becoming one of the greatest challenges of the knowledge-based economy. Thus, the growing role of creative organizations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge and Project Management Peculiarities in Energy Sources and Energy Consumption)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,303 Views
16 Pages

26 March 2022

Many creative arts therapists work in the education system on a regular basis. As a result of the pandemic, all have had to treat students in a “remote therapeutic response” format. The aim of the present study was to map creative arts th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Arts Therapies with Children and Adolescents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,880 Views
18 Pages

Family rules, routines, and resources shape children’s creativity. However, little is known about how parents’ creative self-concepts and creative activity are related to the lifestyle adults create in their families. Family lifestyle mig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mental Health of Child and Young People)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,422 Views
13 Pages

26 January 2023

Creative tourism studies remain a newly developed field, pointing to changes in the consumption of tourism and culture while influencing how creativity and co-creation differentiate tourism supply through exploring the existential dimensions of creat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Innovations for Hospitality and Tourism Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,611 Views
11 Pages

Appropriation is a common practice in art and literature; electronic literature in particular lends itself readily to appropriation and collaboration, due to its multimodal and born-digital nature. This paper presents practice-based research examinin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Publishing - Transformations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,207 Views
19 Pages

In an era increasingly shaped by automation and globalization, industries that rely on creativity, innovation, and knowledge-generation are considered key drivers of economic growth in the U.S. and other advanced capitalist economies. This study exam...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Environment Mapping Using GIS)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,352 Views
18 Pages

30 August 2021

The objective of the undertaken study is to investigate the sustainability of creative economy and present a case study providing the main findings on the linkages between creative economy and sustainable development. The in-depth literature review o...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
485 Views
19 Pages

10 September 2026

Understanding the relationship between creative self-regulation and adolescent creativity is important for advancing research on creativity development. However, the psychological processes that may account for this association remain insufficiently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
17,876 Views
16 Pages

25 October 2013

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of revitalized historic urban waterfronts as potential creative milieus attracting creative tourists. Waterfront redevelopment raises issues concerning an extensive range of urban planning and manageme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cities and Waterfront Infrastructure)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,205 Views
16 Pages

9 November 2021

In recent years, the ecological shift from an economically driven model of arts and culture to that of an ecosystem in the creative industries determined the emergence of a range of new bottom-up, place-based networks herewith referred to as “creativ...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
542 Views
23 Pages

11 June 2026

Early childhood is a critical period for creative personality development. Guided by Amabile’s Componential Model of Creativity, this research explored the higher-order structure, developmental trajectories, and predictive role of preschoolers&...

(This article belongs to the Topic Personality, Emotions, and Emotional Intelligence Assessments: New Applications and Instruments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
10,480 Views
23 Pages

Crafting Life Stories in Photocollage: An Online Creative Art-Based Intervention for Older Adults

  • Shoshi Keisari,
  • Silvia Piol,
  • Talia Elkarif,
  • Giada Mola and
  • Ines Testoni

21 December 2021

Creative arts therapies (CAT) provide a safe and creative environment for older adults to process life experiences and maintain personal growth while aging. There is a growing need to make creative arts therapies more accessible to the aging populati...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Psychology)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
537 Views
34 Pages

Cybersecurity and Privacy for Co-Creative Robotics: Protecting Trust Without Constraining Creative Autonomy

  • Eda Marchetti,
  • Sanaz Nikghadam-Hojjati,
  • Antonello Calabrò and
  • José Barata

11 August 2026

Co-Creative Robotics combines computational creativity, robotic embodiment, and human–robot collaboration to support or generate creative behavior in physical and social environments. As these systems become more autonomous, data-intensive, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT, AI, and Blockchain: Applications, Security, and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
675 Views
12 Pages

2 June 2026

This article examines collaboratively produced poems by displaced Lebanese and Syrian women created within a Participatory Arts-Based Research (PABR) project in Akkar, North Lebanon. The study asks how creative writing pedagogy and participatory rese...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gender and Otherness in the Humanities)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
18,418 Views
11 Pages

17 October 2017

One of the frequently overlooked psychosocial problems of refugees is the phenomenon of homesickness. Being forced into exile and unable to return home may cause natural feelings of nostalgia but may also result in emotional, cognitive, behavioral an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Embodied Aesthetics and Interpersonal Resonance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,821 Views
20 Pages

10 October 2023

With the demand for high-quality and personalized tourism experiences, creative tourism has flourished as a novel form of tourism activity. However, there is limited knowledge regarding the viewpoint of suppliers and the essential creative elements t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability Management Strategies and Practices)
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,206 Views
19 Pages

A Minimal Theory of Creative Ability

  • Claire Stevenson,
  • Matthijs Baas and
  • Han van der Maas

Despite decades of extensive research on creativity, the field still combats psychometric problems when measuring individual differences in creative ability and people’s potential to achieve real-world outcomes that are both original and useful. We t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligence and Creativity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,461 Views
19 Pages

28 December 2024

This study explores the relationship between creative self-efficacy and creative behavior by modulating state-level creative self-efficacy through false feedback to enhance creative performance. In Study 1, 1539 college students completed the Alterna...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,433 Views
16 Pages

12 January 2022

This article explores a creative project entitled Performing Liberation which sought to empower communities with direct experience of incarceration to create and share creative work as part of transnational dialogue. One of the aims of the project wa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Acts of Liberation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
11,092 Views
23 Pages

25 June 2021

Following the hype that has been given to culture and creativity as triggers and enhancers of local economic performance in the last 20 years, this work originally contributes to the literature with the objective of assessing the impact of cultural a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural, Creative and Sustainable Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
11,009 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2021

In this paper we highlight the importance of culture, cultural heritage and creative industries (CCI) in current European policies in relation to a number of societal challenges, and how the CCI are called to innovatively respond to such challenges....

(This article belongs to the Collection Cultural Crossovers and Social Sustainability)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,318 Views
5 Pages

19 January 2024

In the field of textile and fashion design, there is a growing desire to integrate interactive technologies into creative work. Traditional design education typically lacks support for material-oriented designers to develop electronic skills alongsid...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Eng. Proc., 2023, E-Textiles 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
12,081 Views
15 Pages

Creative thinking is a defining human feature. It provides novel solutions and as such undoubtedly has contributed to our survival. However, according to signaling theory, creativity could also have evolved through sexual selection as a potential fit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biology of Human Psychology and Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,616 Views
20 Pages

Design for Social Innovation: A Systemic Design Approach in Creative Higher Education toward Sustainability

  • Fanke Peng,
  • Benjamin Altieri,
  • Todd Hutchinson,
  • Anthony J. Harris and
  • Daniel McLean

1 July 2022

The role and responsibilities of our creative Higher Education are evolving in our ever-changing society. Systemic design thinking equips our design students with the means to promote sustainable development objectives via engagement, community build...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Innovation at Higher Education Institutions: Promoting Sustainable Development Objectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,158 Views
23 Pages

The Creative Services Sector in Polish Cities

  • Radosław Wolniak and
  • Izabela Jonek-Kowalska

The creative services sector plays an important and constantly growing role in the modern economy. This publication presents the results of extensive research on the functioning of the creative sector in Polish cities, conducted on a representative s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,993 Views
28 Pages

3 July 2023

The rapid expansion of the cultural industry and the escalating demand for innovation have led to a growing attention on the sustainable development of cultural and creative parks. This study aims to provide a comprehensive review and prospectus of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cross-Cultural Design for Sustainability: From Design Thinking to Design Strategy)
  • Entry
  • Open Access
2,980 Views
14 Pages

The digital labour economy is a system where work is mediated through digital technologies and online platforms. Work is often also called platform labour or gig work. China has brought out new labour protections to promote and support these new form...

(This article belongs to the Collection Encyclopedia of Digital Society, Industry 5.0 and Smart City)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,143 Views
16 Pages

2 October 2022

Modern organizational environments encounter serious competition and paradoxical situations. This study discusses the effect of paradoxical leadership on overcoming competitive and paradoxical situations happening in the Korean workplace. More specif...

(This article belongs to the Section Organizational Behaviors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,975 Views
14 Pages

12 November 2021

Previous research has suggested that employees’ proactive personality can enhance their creative performance. However, studies that address the underlying mechanism of the effect of proactive personality on creative performance have been scarce. Addi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmentally Sustainable Work Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,739 Views
9 Pages

This article explores the social and educational impact post COVID-19 on education through the perspective of creativity. This is a reflective and forward-thinking piece of how creativity can transform the future of education. The article is structur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creativity, Intelligence, and Collaboration in 21st Century Education: An Interdisciplinary Challenge)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,914 Views
18 Pages

The Nexus between Creative Actors and Regional Development

  • Kamila Borseková,
  • Anna Vaňová,
  • Janka Šúrová,
  • Pavol Kráľ and ,
  • Kamila Turečková,
  • Jan Nevima and
  • Stanislav Martinát
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 March 2021

The paper aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship and the impact of creative actors on regional development and investigates the nexus between them. The novelty of the paper lies in constructing an original criteria matrix of creative ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban-Rural-Partnerships: Sustainable and Resilient)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,144 Views
14 Pages

12 June 2025

Negative feedback is both common and important in the creative process. However, research has shown inconsistent effects of negative feedback on creativity, and individual characteristics may moderate the impact of negative feedback on creative perfo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Creativity in Education: Influencing Factors and Outcomes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
Behav. Sci.2026, 16(11), 2152;https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16112152 
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12 November 2026

Creative role identity (CRI) may enable individuals to realize their creative potential, yet how it can be cultivated and how it contributes to creativity development remain underexplored. This mixed-methods study used a randomised controlled trial a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coaching for Learning and Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,852 Views
21 Pages

14 September 2022

The Creative Life Industry (CLI) is an experiential industry within the experience economy in Taiwan. Given the scarcity of research on the realms of experience and brand loyalty within this field of the CLI, this study aims to further our understand...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultural Industries and Sustainable Development)
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,640 Views
16 Pages

15 January 2021

Computational creativity in built environment (BE) design has been a subject of research interest in the discipline. This paper presents a critical review of various ways computational creativity has been and can be defined and approached in BE desig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design Creativity in Architecture and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,854 Views
27 Pages

Mathematical Creativity in Adults: Its Measurement and Its Relation to Intelligence, Mathematical Competence and General Creativity

  • Michaela A. Meier,
  • Julia A. Burgstaller,
  • Mathias Benedek,
  • Stephan E. Vogel and
  • Roland H. Grabner

Mathematical creativity is perceived as an increasingly important aspect of everyday life and, consequently, research has increased over the past decade. However, mathematical creativity has mainly been investigated in children and adolescents so far...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligence and Creativity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,663 Views
18 Pages

10 July 2023

The concept of a creative city is a post-industrial development strategy focused on urban economies. Based on this concept, many cities declared the importance of CI development as a sustainable urban development strategy. The long-term impact of CI...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact of Creativity and Innovation on Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
10,207 Views
21 Pages

23 July 2020

Creativity can be evaluated from learners’ internal motivation and learning outcomes. Implementation of innovative teaching methods by teachers can increase students’ learning motivation. In this study, convenience sampling was employed t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technology and Innovation Management in Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,144 Views
24 Pages

24 November 2025

The creative economy includes the processes involved in producing, sharing, and using goods and services that depend on creativity, cultural understanding, entrepreneurship, and intellectual property as essential factors for economic value. This stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century: Facing New Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,000 Views
22 Pages

The Enhancement of Creative Collaboration through Human Mediation

  • Teresa Varela,
  • Odete Palaré and
  • Sofia Menezes

24 November 2020

This text presents a reflection on the elements that coinfluence creative processes in learning. This study highlights a specific period in secondary education at the António Arroio Art School in Lisbon, Portugal, developed during the curricul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,147 Views
12 Pages

The Meaning of a Group Facilitation Training to Creative Arts Therapists Working in the Public Education System

  • Efrat Roginsky,
  • Atara Ben-Haim,
  • Talya Cooper,
  • Shoval Ben-Simon and ,
  • Dafna Regev and
  • Sharon Snir
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Many creative arts therapists who provide group therapy to children and adolescents in the Israeli education system do not feel they were sufficiently trained as group facilitators. Group facilitation training was provided over the course of two cons...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Arts Therapies with Children and Youth: Traditional and Innovative Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,742 Views
16 Pages

Multidimensional Benefits of Creative Tourism: A Network Approach

  • Rui Miguel Ferreira Carvalho,
  • Carlos Costa and
  • Ana Maria Ferreira

1 November 2024

As creative tourism consolidates both as an autonomous research area and a valid sustainable form of tourism based on learning, active participation, co-creation, creative self-expression, and local community engagement, its economic models have evol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,366 Views
20 Pages

29 March 2026

The present study examined how creative intrinsic motivation (CIM), creative extrinsic motivation (CEM), and creative self-efficacy (CSE) moderate differences in individual creativity in one-on-one interactive situations. A total of 262 adults comple...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,119 Views
18 Pages

9 November 2023

Previous studies, to some extent, link creativity, well-being, and environmental concerns. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the associations between self-reported creativity, psychological well-being, and climate change concerns. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact of Creativity and Innovation on Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,122 Views
37 Pages

With globalization, the notion of “creative city” has become a core concept of many cities in the world development policies, with real properties being upgraded or used to change, renewal is being conducted, and creative industries are emerging. Thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Environment, Green Operations and Sustainability)

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