ABSTRACT
This chapter comprises three parts. The first part reviews creativity research paradigms from prior to the 1950s to the present, and describes processes in creativity research development: convergence in divergence, emergence, and boundary crossing. The second part of the chapter presents the multiple orientations (multi-, inter-, and trans-) of cross-disciplinarity and the conditions for creativity in cross-disciplinary research. Criteria for cross-disciplinary research are elaborated, with reference to the principles of continuity and interaction. The third part of the chapter presents a cross-disciplinary research paradigm of creativity for the good, examining systemic, interactive, and mediated phenomena in life.
