KICSS’2014 was the 9th in the series of highly successful interdisciplinary conferences on creativity and related topics and the second one to be held in Europe, following Krakow (2013), Melbourne (2012), Beijing (2011), and Chiang Mai (2010). Proceedings of the previous KICSS conferences have been published by Springer LNCS/LNAI, IEEE CPS, JAIST Press.