Hans-Joachim Braun is Professor Emeritus of Modern Social, Economic and Technological History at the Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg. He is the former President of the International Committee for the History of Technology. His interests are inventions and innovations, technology and music, sound studies, creative processes, and soccer tactics.

«As a résumé of the book, one might use the metaphor of a mosaic. Like an image made from the assemblage of small pieces of different coloured materials, so is this volume composed of heterogeneous essays featuring different aspects, perspectives, and multidisciplinary approaches to creativity. But despite or probably for exactly that reason, the reader is able to get a glimpse of the essence of creative processes by composing an image of creativity by himself. Perhaps it is simplest to describe this book by remembering the definition of creativity which is given in the introduction: with this collaborative book something new, original, and valuable was formed – with positive connotations.» (Sonja Neumann, ICON 23/2017)