CREATING INNOVATIONS IN SOCIAL, HUMANISTIC AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AREAS WITH THE USE OF A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT

Abstract

The article is another attempt to present the method of generating innovative ideas using a thought experiment. Thus, the existing patterns of research procedure were replaced with various literary forms in order to activate the intellectual capital of people participating in scientific research. In addition, ways of using a thought experiment as a form of creating innovative solutions in various fields of science were presented. The authors, wishing to go beyond the limits set by the known methods of quantitative and qualitative research, propose their own concept of generating innovative ideas. In addition, the article clearly indicates the roles of a scientist and an intellectual who express these digressions and deliberations. The method in question is not a compact monolith that comprehensively implements the subject or the essence of the issue, but rather a free presentation of loosely related issues. The added value and at the same time the goal is an attempt to encourage: students, managers or educators to freely articulate: abstract, original, and therefore non-standard considerations that can be an impulse to generate any ideas: in private life, professional life, and therefore also in enterprises to science, humanities or social sciences.