Lingling Luo

Gender and Regional Differences in Creativity: A Comparative Study on Playfulness and Humor in Postgraduate Students Between Mainland China and Taiwan

This article aims to study both similarities and differences in female students’ creativity between Mainland China and Taiwan. As two main aspects influencing creativity, playfulness and humor are especially focused on in this comparative study. Empirical data were collected from 831 students in Mainland China and 703 students in Taiwan. Based on data analysis, we find common characteristics, gender differences, and regional differences in the creativity of female postgraduate students. The female students in both regions are less confident in their abilities in scientific research and innovative behavior than males. The female students in Mainland China are less confident in playfulness, humor, and creative life experience than their counterparts. The female students in Taiwan are more masculine than their counterparts in Mainland China.

An Investigation of Creative Climate of University R&D Centers and Policy Implications for Innovation in China

This chapter focuses on the influences of science and technology (ST one is with 840 leaders of S&T fund management sectors in universities. The results demonstrate both strengths and weaknesses of creative climate of university R&D centers. This leads to implications such as to improve a more comprehensive innovation measurement system, to build ‘creative R&D communities’, and to carry out self-evaluation on cultural influences on innovation that provide references to policy makers.

A Study on Changes of Supervision Model in Universities and Fostering Creative PhD Students in China

This paper aims to explore the changes of supervision model in higher education in relation to fostering creative PhD students in China. The changes are being made from the traditional Apprentice Master Model (AMM) to the modern Collaborative Cohort Model (CCM). According to the results of the empirical work done by questionnaire survey and interviews, this study shows in the background of the Big Science Era and according to theories on systematic view of creativity, the new CCM improves PhD students’ creativity to some extent; however, problems exist in the creativity development mechanisms. So this paper also explores the reasons of why the new mechanism of creativity development failed to play fully.

The Proceedings of the 2013 9th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC)

During the last decade, IT students in a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) environment at Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark, have developed three student satellites. This paper focuses on teaching strategies of fostering creative IT students through the development satellite projects at AAU. The discussion of the strategies in satellite projects will lead to implications of creativity development in IT education in China. Suggestions for China, such as supporting students in group work, designing interdisciplinary projects, change from “teacher-led” education to “student-centered” learning, and facilitating staff development on creativity teaching will be proposed.