Bcmarktg

Department of Marketing

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Bo
Christensen
Professor
,
PHD


Room: SOL/C3.10
Tel:
+4538152123
E-mail: bc.marktg@cbs.dk
Presentation

My main research area concerns the study of creativity in domains such as design, marketing, engineering, cuisine, architecture and software design. Using video recordings of creative teams at work I study the underlying cognitive processes and mechanisms of creative work. Furthermore, I utilize experimental research and quasi-experimental research methods to study both the generation and selection of creative ideas. I also study what forms of technology that may be brought into play for support of creative processes. Finally, I study the evaluation of creativity; how to select the right ideas for progression at gates in innovation processes; how is creative evaluation handled in various domains; how do consumers or users come to perceive a product as creative or innovative.

Primary research areas
  • Creative cognition; creative processes
  • Design thinking
  • Evaluation of creativity
  • Analogical reasoning, mental simulation
  • Idea selection in product development
Administrative tasks


Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/bcmarktg
Courses
  • CM(psyk): Organizational creativity and entrepreneurship
  • Master programme of Strategic Design and Entrepreneurship: Strategic Design and Project Management
  • HA(psyk): Cognitive Psychology
Supervision

I supervise masters theses related to the topic of creativity and innovation (creative organizations, motivation for creativity, processes involved in creativity, evaluation of creativity, innovation processes, etc.).

Other teaching activities


Selected publications
  • Christensen, B.T. & Schunn, C. D. (2007), The relationship between analogical distance to analogical function and pre-nventive structure: The case of engineering design. Memory & Cognition 35(1), 29-38.
  • Ball, L. & Christensen, B. T. (2009), Analogical reasoning and mental simulation in design: Two strategies linked to uncertainty resolution. Design Studies, 30(2), 169-186.
  • Christensen, B. T., Ball, L. J. & Halskov, K. (eds.) (2017) Analysing Design Thinking: Studies of Cross-Cultural Co-Creation. Leiden: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis.
  • Moeran, B. & Christensen, B. T. (eds.) (2013) Exploring creativity: Evaluative practices in innovation, design and the arts. Cambridge University Press.
  • Wiltschnig, S., Christensen, B. T. & Ball, L. (2103). Collaborative Problem-Solution Co-evolution in Creative Design. Design Studies 34(5), 515-542. *Awarded the 2013 Design Studies Award for best paper published in Design Studies in 2013.
  • Christensen, B. T., Hartmann, P. V. W., & Rasmussen, T. (2017). Threshold theory tested in an organizational setting: the relation between perceived innovativeness and intelligence in a large sample of leaders. Creativity Research Journal, 29(2), 188-193.
Publications sorted by:
2024
Beth H. Richardson; Linden J. Ball; Bo T. Christensen; John E. Marsh / Collaborative Meta-reasoning in Creative Contexts : Advancing an Understanding of Collaborative Monitoring and Control in Creative Teams.
In: The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition. ed. /Linden J. Ball; Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau. Abingdon : Routledge 2024, p. 372-396 (Routledge International Handbooks)
Book chapter > peer review
Bo T. Christensen / Creative Cognition and Entrepreneurship
In: The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Cognition. ed. /Linden J. Ball; Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau. Abingdon : Routledge 2024, p. 698-708 (Routledge International Handbooks)
Book chapter > peer review
2023
Bo Christensen; Kasper Merling Arendt; Daniel Hjorth / How Learning Spaces Matter in Entrepreneurship Education : Introducing the Concept of Topopraxis.
In: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Vol. 35, No. 3-4, 3.2023, p. 317-336
Journal article > peer review
Bo Christensen; Kasper Merling Arendt; Paul McElheron; Linden J. Ball / The Design Entrepreneur : How Adaptive Cognition and Formal Design Training Create Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intention.
In: Design Studies, Vol. 86, 5.2023
Journal article > peer review
2022
Anna Victoria Bredtved Mountford; Bo Christensen / Two Approaches to Foresight-driven Design
In: Proceedings of DRS2022 Bilbao: Design Research Society International . . ed. /Dan Lockton; Sara Lenzi; Paul Hekkert; Arlene Oak; Juan Sádaba; Peter Lloyd. London : Design Research Society 2022 (DRS Biennial Conference Series)
Article in proceedings > peer review
2021
Michael Mose Biskjær; Bo Christensen / A Second Look at Primary Generators
In: She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1.2021, p. 7-23
Journal article > peer review
Bo Christensen; Sille Julie J. Abildgaard / Kinds of ‘Moving’ in Designing with Sticky Notes
In: Design Studies, Vol. 76, 9.2021
Journal article > peer review
Linden J. Ball; Bo Christensen; Kim Halskov / Sticky Notes as a Kind of Design Material : How Sticky Notes Support Design Cognition and Design Collaboration.
In: Design Studies, Vol. 76, 9.2021
Journal article > peer review
Bo Christensen; Kim Halskov / Sticky Notes in Design : Properties in Practice.
In: Design Studies, Vol. 76, 2021, 4 p.
Editorial
Bo Christensen; Sille Julie J. Abildgaard / The Oscillation between Individual and Social Designing in Co-located Student Teams
In: CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, Vol. 17, No. 3, 9.2021, p. 237-257
Journal article > peer review
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Research Projects
Outside activities

• censoring in the discipline of Psychology at Danish Universities
• PhD dissertation board memberships
• co-supervision of PhD students at other universities (e.g., DTU; Kolding Design school; Loughborough University)
• Academic institution expert committee membership (e.g., KEA)
• Academic assessment committee membership (e.g., AU, DTU)
• Membership of journal editorial boards (Design Studies; CoDesign; She Ji; Journal of Cognitive Psychology)
• ad hoc reviewing for scientific journals.”
 

• PhD dissertation board memberships

• Co-supervision of PhD students at other universities (e.g., DTU; Kolding Design school; Loughborough University)

• Academic institution expert committee membership (e.g., KEA)

• Academic assessment committee membership (e.g., AU, DTU, DMJX, AAU)

• Membership of journal editorial boards (Design Studies; CoDesign; She Ji; Journal of Cognitive Psychology)