Monday, February 8, 2010

Lesson 2 : Defining Creativity, Novelty, Innovation, and Invention

For this class, our lecturer was the esteemed Mr. Mustafa Muzer. He lectured on the topic 'Creativity, Novelty, Innovation, and Innovation'. There were many valid points that I have taken to understand during his lecture.

A creative person is someone who generates new ideas. Creative process is the process of generating new ideas. Being creative is seeing the same thing as everybody else but thinking of something different. An idea can only be called creative if it makes sense and adaptable by society. Furthermore, it has to make a difference and bring change. Creativity does not happen inside people's heads, but rather exists in the interaction in sociocultural context.

Take a look at the example Mr. Mustafa has given us. A creative and innovative invention by Jane Chen.


Innovation, by definition, is to bring in new ideas or make changes. A basic structure to making new inventions is to do research, narrow down problems, and find the solution.

Creativity appears to be utilized in varying degrees by different people. Wisdom is the balance between creativity and intelligence relegating the novel ideas according to their appropriateness (Sternberg). Wisdom will distinguish the reasonable from the unreasonable.

Definition of novelty is the quality of being new. There exists two kinds of novelty. Subjective novelty is the apperception of something as being new by an individual or group of persons. Objective novelty is something new for all humanity. It is hard to view from this standpoint because one cannot claim to know everything from before.

Innovation is the process of making improvements by introducing something new. Innovations by standard must be replicable, economical, and cater to a certain need.

Design can change everything.

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