COBE Centre for Creativity & Innovation Department

Create ! Ideas – Research

The Centre for Creativity and Innovation is a bastion of great research. Feel free to peruse our PDF papers for information on our various research projects.

Idaho Film Industry Study : A comparison of Idaho, Austin (TX) and Vancouver, Canada’s film industries – how they grew, factors that are important for each

U.S. Looming Creativity Crisis The US no longer dominates in creativity and innovation – as more countries start focusing on doing more, where will the US end up?

The Creativity Imperative – National Perspective :

Creative Index Brochure : Comparing Boise with Portland and Seatte on key factors that creative cities have in common.

Rethinking Small Places : What smaller cities can do to take advantage of being smaller to become more creative

Incubator Research Paper : Comparison of Boise three business development/incubators: The downtown WaterCooler, the “green” Venga Works (Meridian), and the high tech start up center, TECenter, Nampa

World Economic Forum: The annual forum of leaders from all over the world: what’s on their minds, where is the world going, what are some of the biggest challenges?

Study Creatively Gauges Economic Success Boise State FOCUS Magazine