Novelty Creativity, innovation and invention.

On the previous class, I was "entertained" by a documentary film about novelty, creativity, innovation and invention. The video shows a man talk about these things. The topic that they spoke of are somewhat opened up my mind a bit... They talk about how the creative people do their job. How they generates their ideas and so on..

CREATIVITY

The creative people are the ones who will generates new ideas for solving things and inventions... And they do it based on the creative processes. Creativity comes from our own mind and surroundings... It involves the translation of our unique gifts, talents and vision. To study creativity, we should not just study the person but also the mechanisms that stimulated their idea and the social network that recognized and spread their innovation. Here are some of the quotes about 'creativity' "The definite definition of the word creativity has long been an argument among many scholar and researchers" -Amabile, 1996. P 19 "Creativity is the process of generating something new that has value. There are many new ideas and concepts, but some may not have value and hence may not be considered creative. A creation is something original that has value"- Haggins, 1995,p. 3

INNOVATION

Actually, many people misunderstood the concept of innovations and creativity... Innovation are something that is already created but upgraded into more better 'something'... So, in other words, innovation is not creating a new ideas etc, but to improve it to become more usable, better etc.

Top pic: Thats an innovation!.... Sort of... -.-''

NOVELTY

Novelty is something new for me actually... From what I have learn, novelty is the quality of being new. Like a new style of arts such as abstract and impressionism. But.... I think this "something new is actually based on individuals to judge". The novelty in creativity is always based on what has been created before.... This is some what like innovation but it has it's own originality.

Top: an abstract art which is an improvement of the previous era of arts... But with its own originality.

Owh! And I have something that might look interesting. ^^ (It is from the notes my lecturers gave) Four categories of creative people:

1. Aesthetic Organizers
2. Boundary Pushers- those who take an existing idea and push it a little further.
3. Inventors- those who take existing knowledge and create new ideas- the Edisons of this world.
4. Boundary Breakers (The rarest group)- the leonardos and the Copermicuses.