Predicting Entrepreneurship from Ideation and Divergent Thinking

By M. Ames, Mark A. Runco. 2005

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

In Praise of Clark Kent: Creative Metacognition and the Importance of Teaching Kids When (Not) to Be Creative (2013, background): “Entrepreneurs who scored higher on a measure of idea generation were more likely to be successful (Ames & Runco, 2005).”
The Personality Composition of Teams and Creativity: The Moderating Role of Team Creative Confidence (2008, background): “3 Previous research suggests that fluency (i.e., the number of unique, nonoverlapping ideas produced by a team) may represent a confounding factor when examining the creativity of ideas (Ames & Runco, 2005; Hocevar, 1979).”
Creativity and Entrepreneurial Intention in Young People (2011, background): “Ames and Runco (2005) also note that entrepreneurs are able to produce a large number of ideas and often have unusual and novel ideas.”
Individual Differences in Ideational Behavior: Can the Big Five and Psychometric Intelligence Predict Creativity Scores? (2010, methodology): “Subsequent studies of the validity of the RIBS have used the original 23-item version of the RIBS and, in the case of Ames and Runco (2005), a 37-item variant (cf.”
Which Test of Divergent Thinking Is Best? (2016, background): “A number of studies have demonstrated that the RIBS is statistically unrelated to GPA and is useful as a criterion of original and divergent thinking (Ames & Runco, 2005; Plucker, Runco, & Lim, 2006).”
Commentary: Divergent Thinking Is Not Synonymous With Creativity (2008, background): “Ames and Runco (2005) encountered the expertise problems in their investigation of the divergent thinking of entrepreneurs.”