The Importance of the Raw Idea in Innovation: Testing the Sow's Ear Hypothesis

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Construing creativity: The how and why of recognizing creative ideas (2014, result): “This is consistent with the recent empirical work of Kornish & Ulrich (2012) who found that highly experienced experts were not very good at predicting the success potential of an idea.”
Balancing on the Creative Highwire (2016, background): “To measure the underlying quality of creators’ videos, I followed other scholars who have defined quality as audience appeal that is intrinsic to the ideas themselves (Reeves and Bednar, 1994; Salganik, Dodds, and Watts, 2006; Kornish and Ulrich, 2014).”
The Role of Inclusive Innovation in Promoting Social Sustainability (2019, background): “In order to generate ideas for needs of the excluded population, one natural way is to include that population in the ideation process (Kornish and Ulrich 2014, Von Hippel 1986).”