Human is gifted with a mind that is capable of coming up with new ideas. Over the years, as indicated in history, There have been people whose effort on generating new things have contributed to the way others live. This contributions, are done within a process associated with three fundamental Terms, namely: Creativity, Innovation and Novelty.
Despite the fact that these terms are socially used synonymously, There are different from each other either practically or conceptually. Creativity, as defined by LONGMAN DICTIONARY, is the ability to use your imagination to produce new ideas, make things etc. According to the book
"The Nature of Creative Development", Creativity is followed by a process of development, which includes the formation of a creative interest, and exploring it in order to develop them.
This statement spontaneously leads us to another significant term which is Innovation. Even though creativity and innovation are related to each other, they have different meanings and practice. In fact, Innovation is the process in which we transfer our creative Ideas into practice. this is done based on the subject in which the creativity is applied to. For instance. In business, Innovation could be regarded as utilizing a creative idea into the production, or advertising the the product " innovatively". The third term, which Is Novelty, Is the quality of being new. Hence, presumably, it is associated with the previously mentioned terms, Creativity an Innovation. Considering great inventions such as automobile, it could be realised that creativity could be regarded to as the invention of something new based on a previous concept, or product in use( Automobile eases the way people travel, before that people would use animals for travelling or do it on foot). Creative minds are capable of inventing new things, yet based on an already-existing idea. What makes them practical and acceptable to the society, is the newness within the way their ideas are represented. This newness in called Novelty.
In summary, A creative development demands creative interest, innovation and novelty in order to be useful for the society. Recently, the creativity is highly associated with technology, which is borough into the society as a feature of modernity.
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