Kevin O'Mara presents innovation research at international conference 

The LSB management professor and executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneural Leadership presented a research paper on how individuals differ on the eight dimensions of creativity and the implications for teaching innovation.

Kevin O’Mara, professor of management and executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, presented his research on innovation and implications for teaching innovation at the 11th International Conference on Excellence and Innovation in Education: The Creativity – Innovation Challenge in July.

The research focuses on how individuals from different perspectives possess varied capabilities along eight dimensions of creativity. The paper contends that group creativity profiles should impact how innovation is taught to targeted groups.    

The research is being supported by a CATL grant.