Creativity : Being Usefully Innovative in Solving Diverse Problems

Being Usefully Innovative in Solving Diverse Problems

By: Stuart S. Nagel (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 June 2001

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Creativity in general can be defined as an ability or an occurrence. Either way, it refers to developing an alternative way of (1) explaining gravity, (2) writing a symphony, (3) lessening the problem of poverty, or (4) dealing with some other subjects. The distinctive aspect of a creative alternative is that it is better on whatever criteria are considered relevant than the alternatives that were previously being considered. A special kind of creativity involves not merely finding a better way of doing things, but of finding a way that exceeds the best initial expectations of whatever sides or viewpoints may have been in contention over how to deal with a problem. That kind of creativity can be referred to as super-optimising creativity. It does more than just find a new better or best alternative. It finds an alternative that is better than what the previous perspectives had as their best expectations, simultaneously across all those previous perspectives. Super-optimising creativity is closely related to super-optimising analysis which refers to methods that are useful in finding alternatives that are capable of exceeding the best expectations of all sides and viewpoints to dispute or dilemmas.

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Introduction
General Aspects of Creativity	p. 1
Generating Creative Ideas	p. 3
Generating Creative Policy Ideas	p. 5
How Social Conditions Stimulate Creativity	p. 11
Patent Statistics and Social Science Research	p. 13
History of Creativity	p. 27
Prospects in Retrospect	p. 29
The Creativity Process	p. 35
Cognitive Processes in Creative Acts	p. 37
Types of Creativity	p. 61
Technology Creativity	p. 63
Short-Run Trends in United States Patent Activity	p. 65
Federal Policy and the Diffusion of Innovations	p. 83
Public Policy Creativity	p. 89
Policy Agenda for the New Post-Communist States	p. 91
Cultivation of Creativity	p. 99
Sources of Goals, Policies, and Relations	p. 105
Business Creativity	p. 123
Issues in Managing Group Creativity: An Example of Group Problem Solving	p. 125
Artistic Creativity	p. 137
Art of Art's Sake	p. 139
Scientific Creativity	p. 147
Creativity in Science	p. 149
The Creative Person in Science	p. 167
Getting Started on Political Research	p. 181
Education Creativity	p. 191
On Changing Higher Education From Within	p. 193
Utilizing the Gifts of the Gifted	p. 205
Bibliographies	p. 217
Creativity Bibliography	p. 219
A Bibliographical Survey of the Innovation Literature	p. 221
Index	p. 253
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