CATALYSTS AND KILLJOYS

This longitudinal project tracked common cognitive decision-making shortcuts and factors that supported versus inhibited progress on 300+ professional team-based innovative projects. The full dataset is comprised of interviews and observations of over 150 creative professionals. It includes projects from 176 companies, 23 industries, 8 countries, and 5 continents. This site makes 232 of these projects explorable... Projects were categorized as successful or unsuccessful, based on the innovativeness of the idea. Successfully innovative projects were defined similarly to a patent definition, in that they: a) solve a problem, and b) do so in an original way. Success was judged from the perspective of the people who worked on the project, as well as multiple expert raters.