What is innovation? Is it the same as creativity?

Answer 1

They are closely related. You need to be creative to think of an innovation. An innovation is useful, however, creativity does not need to be useful at all.

Answer 2

Innovation: Something newly introduced, such as new method or device.

Creativity: having the ability or power to create, characterised by the originality of thought or inventiveness or imagination.

Just read this apt quotation of Swami Vivekananda: "What Greater God is there than Creative Man!"

Answer 3

The classic definitions of innovation include:

the process of making changes to something established by introducing something new

the act of introducing something new: something newly introduced (The American Heritage Dictionary).

the introduction of something new. (Merriam-Webster Online)

a new idea, method or device. (Merriam-Webster Online)

the successful exploitation of new ideas (Dept of Trade and Industry, UK).

change that creates a new dimension of performance Peter Drucker (Hesselbein, 2002)
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Creative (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. The products of creative thought (sometimes referred to as divergent thought) usually have both originality and appropriateness. Although intuitively a simple phenomenon, it is in fact quite complex. It has been studied from the perspectives of behavioural psychology, social psychology, psychometrics, cognitive science, philosophy, history, economics, design research, business, and management, among others. The studies have covered everyday creativity, exceptional creativity and even artificial creativity. Unlike many phenomena in science, there is no single, authoritative perspective or definition of creativity. Unlike many phenomena in psychology, there is no standardized measurement technique.

Answer 4

Innovation means someting new.we make something thats pops out from our own brain.Like bottle,Cup and etc

Creativity is when we try to make a base thing to become more than one usage.Like when u found a bottle.U can use your creativity by turn the bottle into a vase or something.Something thats useful.

Answer 5

i would say an innovation would be the result of someone's creativity.

Answer 6

no, innovation is enhance (improve) something already made

creativity is start from zero

Answer 7

the process of making changes to something established by introducing something new
the act of introducing something new: something newly introduced (The American Heritage Dictionary).
the introduction of something new. (Merriam-Webster Online)
a new idea, method or device. (Merriam-Webster Online)
the successful exploitation of new ideas (Dept of Trade and Industry, UK).
change that creates a new dimension of performance Peter Drucker (Hesselbein, 2002)

Its different than creativity.