The interaction between personal and situational factors in developing future engineers’ creativity

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the interaction between the technological and the social field. Growth and development require a continuous source of ideas. Their manufacture is efficient only by stimulating the creativity development in the knowledge economy. This essential skill will lead to making smart products and technologies improvements. This will also be the result of the interactions between the new IT-cloud technologies and other various factors, such as: knowledge, skills, approaches, attention, motivation and intellectual property.