1 Towards evidence-based research and cross-disciplinary design practice -- 2 Interdisciplinary research as a creative design process -- 3 Large-scale interdisciplinary design thinking for dealing with 21st century problems and opportunities -- 4 Creativity, design, and transdisciplinarity -- 5 Cross-disciplinary creativity and design thinking -- 6 Domain generality and specificity in creative design thinking -- 7 The multivariate approach and design of the creative process -- 8 Critical issues of advanced design thinking: Scheme of synthesis, realm of out-frame, motive of inner sense, and resonance to future society -- 9 The project, of the specificity of design thinking -- 10 From design thinking to design doing -- 11 C-K theory: modelling creative thinking and its impact on research -- 12 Technological innovation in group creativity.

This book, at the crossroads of creativity, design and interdisciplinary studies, offers an overview of these major trends in scientific research, society, culture and economics. It brings together different approaches and communities around a common reflection on interdisciplinary creative design thinking. This collective effort provides a unique dialogical and convergent space that deals with the challenges and opportunities met by researchers and practitioners working on design thinking, creativity and inter- and transdisciplinarity, or at the interface between these areas.