New study looking at what motivates employees to participate in innovation contests. The answer: the chance to win iPads. Women were also motivated by prosocial issues & men by a chance to improve their workplace. Nobody wanted $ to make their idea real! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The legendary #businessplan seminar for our Bachelor students FAU Erlangen-Nbg is on again! Looking forward to great business ideas and interesting discussions with the students and Martin Meinel #innoBOMA #innovation #entrepreneurship

Can’t stop won’t stop! The #businessplan seminar continues: Patrick Hümmer founder of Ventury Analytics and finance specialist is talking about how to get your finances straight. Thanks! FAU WiSo #innoBOMA #innovation w/ Martin Meinel

The final pitches of our business plan seminar are on! 1/4: "addvertise" brings personalized ads on your screen when streaming soccer games. Looking forward to the jury's comments (@Kiel_Dani, Tanja Jovanović & Andreas Braun from ZOLLHOF) FAU Erlangen-Nbg FAU WiSo #industryFAU w/Lukas Maier

Today’s the day: The final pitches of our #businessplan seminar start now! 2/4 „GAMA“ similar to Airbnb but for suitcases: People can rent and lend suitcases for their vacations. #innoBOMA

#Pitch of team 3/4 "Ice Building": #teambuilding through making ice cream together - sounds delicious! Do you still have your Thai ice cream machine, Tobi? #businessplan FAU Erlangen-Nbg FAU WiSo #industryFAU

#FAU is the 2nd most #innovative #university in 🇪🇺! 🥳💪🍾In the latest Reuters #Ranking 2019, #FAU climbs 3 spots to the runner-up position, bumping Imperial College London, the University of Cambridge & Swiss EPFL each down one rung on the ladder: graphics.reuters.com/EUROPE-UNIVERS…

Our #innovation insights series is on! I am more than thankful to have my friend Timm Wagner in the house FAU Erlangen-Nbg. Timm is member of the great adidas #future team and is sharing exciting insights with our students. w/ Kai-Ingo Voigt @baccito Tobi

Today, Roland Busch (CTO and COO of Siemens) continues our #innovation insights series. I think there is nobody more qualified when it comes to turning innovation into strategic advantages. Thank you Dr. Busch for taking your time and sharing your expertise with us! FAU Erlangen-Nbg

Here’s a measure for school leaders for how well they are teaching for creativity, from Univ of Sydney, the Creative Schools Initiative sydney.edu.au/arts/our-resea…

A great way to test your startup idea is with a “Wizard of Oz” MVP: offer testers key functions of your app/service, but use human work instead of expensive-to-implement automation. I show this in class as illustration (which I think I got from Noam Wasserman) youtu.be/gSQ6q_rGpI8

Talking about #digitization and the #future of work - great to have @janinakugel (Chief Human Resource Officer Siemens) in our lecture FAU WiSo FAU Erlangen-Nbg #innoBOMA

Four things that randomized trials prove will make you significantly more creative: ☕️ caffeine boosts almost all cognitive functions, but the largest effect is on creativity. 1/4 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I recently tweeted about a teaching intervention that doesn’t work, but how about two that do! One of my favorites is reflection. These papers show that giving people time to reflect increases test scores by 23% to 33%. 1/3 hbs.edu/faculty/Public…

Need creativity surveys & lab tasks? The OSF Archive "Creativity Tasks & Scales: Free for Public Use" has been updated with some new humor and DT tasks (in DOC, PDF, and MediaLab QUE formats.) (Please RT.) Center for Open Science #OpenScience #creativity osf.io/4s9p6/

Some great teaching tips from an award-winning business school professor, especially applicable to case-based teaching, but lots here that works more broadly, too.

Hey! It’s a really interesting & depressing new paper on university teaching, what students learn & what they THINK they learn. First good news: active learning (by inexperienced profs) leads to 33% higher test scores over lectures (by veteran profs)! 1/3 pnas.org/content/pnas/e…

Want to get cited more? This study shows that higher quality writing leads to higher impact factors. Take a look at the 11 elements of good paper writing for some hints.. pnas.org/content/pnas/1…

One major thing that research shows managers and entrepreneurs can do to make their teams more innovative, happy, and productive is to ensure that they are creating a sense of psychological safety. Here is a cheat sheet on how to do that. rework.withgoogle.com/guides/underst…

I designed a board game with Justin Gary to walk players through the process of generating good ideas according to the latest creativity evidence. Very excited to see it used around the world at @Twitter! More on the science, for anyone who is interested: thebreakthroughgame.com/science/