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Learning to think innovatively requires practice. This workbook, which serves as a companion to Roberta Ness's Innovation Generation: How to Produce Creative and Useful Scientific Ideas, provides over 150 exercises and activities to hone creative problem-solving skills. Workbook tasks include improvisation, insight exercises, and generative skill building. Each chapter addresses doubts that individuals harbor concerning their ability to improve their innovative output, the techniques to work around frames, metaphors and biases in thinking, manipulatives to rearrange problem conceptualization, insight, intuition, collective innovative output from groups, and social and environmental factors that affect creative thinking. The workbook features straightforward and heuristic exercises for both individuals and groups. Salient Features Serves as the first creativity workbook geared towards those studying science Draws from programs that have proven effective in teaching K-12, business, design, and engineering students Serves as a complement to Innovation Generation: How to Produce Creative and Useful Scientific Ideas, by Roberta Ness Thoroughly explains and demonstrates methods to identify frames and find alternatives About the Author Michael L. Goodman is a public health scientist and practitioner with interests in global health, as well as health disparities in the United States. He is active with community health projects in Sub-Sahara Africa and Latin America, and enjoys applying innovative thinking practices to the unique problems that arise in settings with limited resources. Aisha S. Dickerson is a doctoral candidate in epidemiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Her main research interests, which focus on the possible causes of autism, include gene-environment interactions in autism cases, and further understanding this developmental disorder through innovative research studies. Roberta B. Ness is Dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health and the University of Texas - Houston Vice President for Innovation. She is also an internationally renowned physician, scientist, and author of over 300 scientific papers and books. Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Don't Read This Book Chapter 3: It All Depends on How You Look at It Chapter 4: Overcoming Frames Chapter 5: Say it Like You Mean it Chapter 6: Overcoming Metaphors Chapter 7: Check This Out! Chapter 8: Becoming a Keener Observer Chapter 9: How Biased Are You? Chapter 10: Overcoming Bias Chapter 11: The Brain and Creativity Chapter 12: The Joy of Science Chapter 13: Asking the Right Questions Chapter 14: How is Marriage like a Matchbox Chapter 15: Flip it! Chapter 16: A Man Walked Into a Bar Chapter 17: The Power of Group Intelligence Chapter 18: Getting the Most from a Group Chapter 19: Intuition Chapter 20: Testing Your Idea Chapter 21: That Right Idea Chapter 22: Overcoming the Stodginess of Science Chapter 23: Innovation Incubators References Index of Exercises by Type