Innovative Solutions with Idea Mining

Creativity is a relevant skill that benefits researchers and future specialists and managers across all industries. In everyday (scientific) work, a strong thematic focus can lead to ‘professional tunnel vision’, which prevents new and non-obvious aspects and potential innovations from being included.
In this workshop, you will learn to break through habitual thought patterns, develop creative ideas that generate impact and approach problems unconventionally. As part of the ‘idea mining’, we introduce special techniques that open up new perspectives.
We will work in interdisciplinary teams using a real example from science. The resulting ideas will then be analyzed in terms of their usefulness and feasibility.
Idea mining was conceived at the University of Münster and has since been successfully applied in many workshops in science, society and business.
This workshop for PhD students/PostDocs is part of the Bonn Doctorate plus program and units can be acquired.