The Obscure Features Hypothesis for innovation: One key to improving performance in insight problems
A new cognitive theory of innovation, the Obscure Features Hypothesis (OFH), states that many innovative solutions result from two steps: (1) noticing a rarely noticed or never-before noticed (i.e., obscure) feature of the problem's elements, and (2) then building a solution based on that obscu...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2012
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3518388 |