Not sure if such teams are always more suitable, but check out Joi Itoh's (Creative Commons, MIT) take on innovation
http://bigthink.com/ideas/13052
and interdisciplinary innovation & teams
http://bigthink.com/ideas/42123
From my point of view, R&D team members usually are in contact with many different profiles, new ideas, emergent technologies, new challenges and this generates a richness of stimulus that positively impacts their creativity.
But this does not mean that they are the most creative of the company, if people from other areas of the company are exposed to this type of stimuli and made to participate in the innovation process, surely emerge new creative capabilities that sometimes are hidden by social barriers.
I agree with your view point Angela mam that creativity is something which is not planned and R&D teams work mostly on planned projects. But its their ability to generate new ideas, continuously work for striving excellence, and willingness which helps them in attaining planned objectives creatively. For example to develop a smart phone may be a project but its the creative ability and excellence of R&D team to search, experiment and develop such smart phone. That's why we are connoting that R&D teams are creative ones because only they engaged in exploring new things and ideas to do a task smartly and appropriately.
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