Business, Open Innovation and Art

Abstract

at the intersection of theatre, art and business explores both collaboration and innovation, and demonstrates how such integration "opens unexpected potential for student development as future contributors to society" [3]. The transformational experiences students go through in the course help them develop spatial thinking, abstract reasoning, and active listening and observation skills, as well as creative imagination and critical discourse. The course impact confirms earlier research findings [4][5][6][7] that literacy in the arts prepares students to negotiate cultural differences, challenge existing paradigms and navigate contradictory data; and that working collaboratively within a collected intelligence enables them to find solutions that are not only technically superior, but also ethically and culturally evaluated.Embedding liberal art content in a business course enhances students' ability "to understand undefined outcomes while allowing for failure and risk taking" [3].