Invention and Inventivity as a Special Kind of Creativity, with Implications for General Creativity
✍ Scribed by JOHN C. HUBER
- Publisher
- Creative Education Foundation
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 678 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-0175
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✦ Synopsis
Invention and lnventivity QS Q Special Kind of Creativitv, with Implications for General Creativity ABSTRACT M u c h of t h e s t u d y of creativity u s e s broad definitions of creative o u t p u t s , often including together t h e creative acts of artists, children, scientists, etc. Perhaps b e c a u s e of t h e s e broad definitions, it h a s b e e n difficult t o derive useful predictions of creativity. This paper e x a m i n e s a narrow slice of creativity, t h e invention a n d t h e inventor w h o m a k e s t h e invention. Furthermore, a n e w p a r a m e t e r m e a s u r i n g inventors is definedlnventivity is t h e rate of production of p a t e n t s by a n individual inventor. Examination of a large n u m b e r of inventors s h o w s t h a t lnventivity is a parameter t h a t c a n b e m e a s u r e d a n d u s e d to distinguish a m o n g inventors. T h e results a r e s h o w n t o be consistent with o t h e r studies a n d a r e used to s u p p o r t several theories of creativity.