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Research Methodology

Majid

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Presentation Outline Research as Career What It Takes? Nature of Creativity Research Sequence Topic Selection Research Planning Literature Survey Prole! "or!ulation #o$ %&traor'inary Creative I'eas Occur?

Stories of %&traor'inary Creative People ( Neural )asis of Creativity Nurturing Creativity *erification of Theoretical Results Co!!unication of Research Results

Co!!erciali+ation of Research Outco!es

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Research as Career

Re$ar'ing an' satisfying career

Opportunities for life,long gro$th

e&citing fiel's for innovation

-loal career opportunities .ain re$ar' in 'oing

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Creativity

Open !in'

Curiosity Patience

Persistence

Positive (ttitu'e

/iscipline an' focus

What It Takes?

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The aility of !aking so!ething ne$ Originality

0tility

No correlation $ith intelligence

Nature an' nurture oth i!portant Creative personality

Nature of Creativity

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Research Sequence

Topic selection Research planning Literature survey "or!ulating the prole! Creating ne$ solutions *erification of analytical results Co!!unication of results Co!!erciali+ation of research outco!es

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Topic Selection

prole!s , ranging fro! e&peri!ental to!athe!atical

Prole! sources 1 supervisor2 in'ustry2 research

papers2 conferences2 3hot4 areas I!portant prole!s lea' to i!portant 'iscoveries

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Research Planning

Ti!e an' resource planning Planning of research processes

Planning of 'eveloping ne$ skills

Planning of presentations

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Literature Survey

Recogni+ing ne$ prole!s I!portant to rea' outsi'e the area

)ooks2 5ournal an' conference papers

I%%% Internet %&plore

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Prole! "or!ulation

(sking the right questions

/eveloping analytical !o'els /esigning algorith!ic 'escriptions /iscussions an' rain stor!ing $ith the

supervisor an' group

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#o$ %&traor'inary Creative

I'eas Occur?

Su''en spontaneous visions

/rea!s

Cross,pollination fro! 'ifferent fiel's

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Stories of %&traor'inary Inventors

Su''en *ision /iscoveries Tesla6s i'ea of the rotating

!agnetic fiel' ca!e to hi!

instantly $hile he $as

$alking in a park7

#e 're$ a picture of the

rotating !agnetic fiel' inthe groun' of the park7

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Stories of %&traor'inary Inventors

Su''en *ision /iscoveries The great !athe!atician -auss

prove' in an instant a theore! on

$hich he ha' $orke' unsuccessfullyfor four years7 8(s a su''en flash of

light2 the enig!a $as solve'7 7 7 73 Si!ilar accounts given y e&traor'inary

creative people such as .o+art2 Tchaikovsky2Poincare2 Coleri'ge etc7

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Stories of %&traor'inary Inventors

/rea! /iscoveries "re'erick 9ekule fell asleep an'

'rea!e' of the en+ene !olecule

as a snake iting its tail7

Otto Loe$i ha' a 'rea! that le' to

his 'iscovery of the che!icaltrans!ission of nerve i!pulses7

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Co!!unication of Research "in'ings

Se!inars

Conference papers

:ournal papers

Theses

)ooks

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Writing Papers

"ocus on innovation

Paper structure

.ake it rea'ale an' interesting

Where to pulish?

%thics an' integrity ;uality counts !ore than quantity

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Co!!erciali+ing Research Outco!es

Intellectual property

/eveloping prototypes

)usiness plans

*enture capital