Development of studies in creativity

Abstract

Broadly speaking, creativity is the ability to create meaningful new ideas, forms, sounds, methods, performances, and interpretations. It implies that the creator’s mind is non-conformist with the freedom of action. It also is a phenomenon that shows that some people can generate more beautiful, usable, and effective new things and marvelous new ideas than others. Such a phenomenon could be fi netuned into aspects of invention and innovation, which have been broadly discussed in the fi eld of engineering. Invention is the “creation” of a product or introduction of a process for the fi rst time that has never been made before. Such a product or process is new, novel, and without precedent. For example, the original phonograph created by Thomas Edison in 1877 was a big invention that had not been seen before (see Fig. 7.1 )