Week 2: Novelty, Creativity, Innovation, and Invention

The creative person is one who generates new ideas while the creative process is how these new ideas, solutions, and inventions are produced. It is said that, we are all naturally creative. From poetry to building a house, from computer programming to humor, from music to science, creativity is manifested in a variety of different ways. The aim is to understand the complexity of creativity and to comprehend its mystery through a structured program of learning.

NOVELTY

Novelty is the quality of being new. Although it may be said to have an objective dimension (e.g. a new style of art coming into being, such as abstract art or impressionism) it essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals.

Subjective and Objective novelty

Subjective novelty is the apperception of something as being new by an individual person or a group of persons. Objective novelty is something that is new for all humanity in its development through ages. It is unlikely, however, that even the most knowing and knowledgeable person boldly say that he knows everything that was before and take liberty to judge things from this standpoint.

INNOVATION

Innovation is the process of making improvements by introducing something new, the realization of a creative idea in a social context.Innovation is a process by which an idea or invention is translated into a good or service for which people will pay. To be called an innovation, an idea must be replicable at an economical cost and must satisfy a specific need.

INVENTION

those who take existing knowledge and create new ideas

Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

There are four types of creativity. Creative people fall into these four catagories:

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. The rarest group: Boundary Breakers — the Leonardos and the Copernicuses. A paraphrasing of Elliot Eisner (1933-), American art educator