%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2017 %T Realistic Creativity Training for Innovation Practitioners: The Know–Recognize–React Model %A Dagny Valgeirsdottir %A Balder Onarheim %K co-creation %K cognitive creativity %K creative awareness %K creative process %K creativity %K creativity training %K front-end innovation %K innovation process %K metacognition %K transdisciplinary %X Creativity is increasingly being recognized as important raw material for innovation, which highlights the importance of identifying ways to increase the creativity of practitioners. In this article, we describe our efforts to design a creativity training program specifically for innovation practitioners. Our aim was to develop a program that would be both theoretically sound (i.e., based on a rigorous scientific foundation) and relevant for practitioners (i.e., applicable to real-world contexts). Our transdisciplinary study employed co-creation as a method to ensure that three layers of focus would be taken into consideration: metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive monitoring, and metacognitive control. The result is a program called Creative Awareness Training, which is based on the new Know–Recognize–React model. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 7 %P 5-15 %8 06/2017 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1080 %N 6 %1 Technical University of Denmark Dagny Valgeirsdottir is a PhD researcher and is part of the Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship research group in the Department of Management Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. Her research focuses on developing ways to enhance individual creativity by optimizing creativity training through the application of metacognitive approaches. She is the author of numerous articles on the topic and is currently working on finalizing her dissertation. Dagny furthermore contributes to the Copenhagen Institute of NeuroCreativity, which is an institute devoted to enhancing creativity of individuals and teams applying principles from neuroscience. %2 Technical University of Denmark Balder Onarheim is Associate Professor in Creativity and is part of the Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship research group in the Department of Management Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. His expertise lies within a neurobiological understanding of creativity and methods to use this understanding to improve individuals’ capabilities in creative problem solving. Balder is moreover the founder of the Copenhagen Institute of NeuroCreativity and the CEO at PlatoScience, which is making a neurostimulator to enhance performance in knowledge work. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1080