Creative teams drive the idea-economy, yet the determinants of a team's ability to create new ideas are not universally … agreed upon. Group-level diversity has gained the most traction as an explanation, where a team's performance is usually … mechanism that improves team ability. We formalize and test if experientially diverse groups produce more ideas. Because group …

Creative teams drive the idea-economy, yet the determinants of a team's ability to create new ideas are not universally … agreed upon. Group-level diversity has gained the most traction as an explanation, where a team's performance is usually … mechanism that improves team ability. We formalize and test if experientially diverse groups produce more ideas. Because group …

-edged sword that has opposing effects on the two dimensions of team creativity, novelty and usefulness. We argue and find that …

-to-face engagement on the task within a diverse team works quite well. Latent semantic analysis indicates that diversity is key because … determinants of creativity in economically meaningful settings and suggests newly discovered benefits of teamwork in this setting …

countervailing effects on team creativity through its positive (negative) effect on the uniqueness (usefulness) of the proposals … creative use for an unused university space. We measure the uniqueness, usefulness, and overall creativity of team proposals …. We also use functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) neuroimaging technology to investigate the underlying team …