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 5: **General Ideas**\\
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 7: * Solicitation criteria must be inclusive of current creativity research across disciplines.
 8: ** By including creativity in the solicitation it allows reviewers to include creativity in their analysis.
 9: * Selection of empathetic reviewers that are aware of research methods that form part of the proposal.
10: ** Applicants should also be able to suggest a list of recommended reviewers.
11: * Applicants should be able to flag their projects as "high risk" without fear of prejudice.
12: ** Risk or opportunity?
13: * Proposals should be descriptive rather than prescriptive, and must include reflection and evaluation.
14: ** Guidelines should allow for interim reviews and/or support "seed funding".
15: * The goals for a project should be allowed to change and deliverables may need to be reviewed.
16: ** Discovery in the process may be documented and presented as deliverable.
17: * Practice-based research: supporting makers.
18: ** Research as synthesis together with analysis.
19: ** Make links with the type of research done in engineering?
20: * Supporting makers.
21: ** Bringing people from different disciplines to MAKE things.
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24: **General Guidelines**\\
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26: * Guidelines should be given about how to document and present interim discoveries, insights or emergent activity.
27: * Guidelines should be provided to allow grantees to better understand the impact of their research and how to present this.
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30: Applications should have mechanisms in place to recognise change and have sufficient flexibility to respond to change.
31: \\**Review Criteria**\\
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33: * Will this research debunk the mysticism that surrounds creativity?
34: * Does this research help our understanding of the role of creativity in work?
35: * Does the research embrace technology and innovation?
36: * Does the research use creativity to broaden education in STEM disciplines?
37: * Does the research work at the interface of STEM and creativity.
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40: Create a new kind of proposal called a** ?design proposal?** as an alternative kind of funding to the traditional ?research proposal?
41: \\1) Foucsed on a need area rather than a specific hypothesis/result
42: can be based on social/economic need (transportation, alternative energy, health?.)
43: ?but needs to be decoupled from immediate cost/benefit analysis and from specific solution paths
44: \\2) Combining different perspectives (multi-disciplinary in a way that is focused on the topic)
45: Should require explicit inclusion of ?outsider? perspectives
46: e.g., if it is in art-centered project, need technologists
47: e.g., if it is a technical design project (like MIT?s cars) need artists
48: \\3) Initial proposal is seed for more extensive project
49: Leverage NSF support to get industry involvement
50: Initial funding is large/long enough to allow building up sufficient resources to get to a first round prototype to see what directions are worth following further
51: \\4) Educational activity is a key part of the project 
52: Done with substantial student involvement
53: One major benefit for the money is that it creates an environment for givng design thinking experience to a wide swath of students (different fields), as a value independent of the explicit results that emerge 
54: Create ties to other forms of student funding (fellowships, research associated with project aspects)
55: \\5) Selection criteria based on assessment of human/institutional capacities to learn by doing as the project evolves, rather than by being able to anticipate the results.
56: \\**Rethinking STEM**
57: \\Science, creativity, engineering and new technology = SCENT
58: \\**"Creativity is the new math"**
59: \\Written on a Mac: Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.
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