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A silicon mind and human heart
Generative AI is a collaborative tool that is depended on human input, but that will also raise the human level of creativity
18 Apr 2024
- by Wouter Boon
Aligning an orchestra
Why professor Frido Smulders advocates an ‘entrepreneurial dialogue’ within large organisations
22 Jun 2021
- by Wouter Boon
The creative benefits of the coronacrisis
How Covid-19 stimulates innovation and a guaranteed income turns hobbies into jobs
28 Apr 2020
- by Wouter Boon
Separating fame from paint
Why celebrity artists reap greater rewards than creative ones – not just at Christie’s
23 Apr 2019
- by Wouter Boon
The creative work environment
A model explaining the relationship between an employee’s creativity and the organization’s ability to innovate
22 Aug 2018
- by Wouter Boon
Ceci n’est pas un Duchamp
How the story around the most influential piece of art of the 20th century just got rewritten.
18 Jun 2018
- by Wouter Boon
Art with an extended arm
Why primates can’t use creativity to make art and why artificial intelligence can – in a few decades.
03 Oct 2017
- by Wouter Boon
The Architecture of Creativity
How Apple’s state of the art new HQ is designed to optimally facilitate the creative output of its employees
09 Aug 2017
- by Wouter Boon
Creative Destruction
The meaning of creativity from both a Western and Eastern point of view
14 Feb 2017
- by Wouter Boon
Making the EU Great Again
Why not show European citizens the creative potential of the EU and improve its image along the way.
22 Nov 2016
- by Wouter Boon
A good plan violently executed
While young Boyan Slat is determined to rid the oceans of plastic, the experts keep telling him it’s not a good idea
25 Aug 2016
- by Wouter Boon
Shell’s looming Kodak moment
How the trend towards renewable energy disrupts Shell’s core business and why the company should quickly reinvent itself
23 May 2016
- by Wouter Boon
Thinking differently
'The Big Short' reveals how Asperger Syndrome can be a blessing for obtaining a fresh perspective on the world
04 Feb 2016
- by Wouter Boon
It takes three to tango
Walter Isaacson's book 'The Innovators' describes how successful inventions are built on vision, engineering skills and entrepreneurship
22 Oct 2015
- by Wouter Boon
Creative by influence
Researchers at Rutgers University create an algorithm that assesses a painting's originality by its influence on others
21 Jul 2015
- by Wouter Boon
The fragile nature of the muses
How Nick Cave poetically explained to MTV that his muse is not a horse and he himself not in a horse race when creating music
07 May 2015
- by Wouter Boon
Rembrandt’s innovations
Wouter Boon visited a lecture by Rembrandt specialist Gregor Weber and this is what he learned.
25 Mar 2015
- by Wouter Boon
The virtue of ignorance
Creative value, experts and motivation; the lessons to be learned from Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman
11 Feb 2015
- by Wouter Boon
Creative Madness
How music celebrities struggle with stardom, mental disorders and drug abuse
13 Jan 2015
- by Wouter Boon
The global coffee house
Six positive influences of social media on creativity
07 Aug 2014
- by Wouter Boon
Tech nerds wear t-shirts
Why the world of digital start-ups cares less about looks and lifestyle
25 Feb 2014
- by Wouter Boon