the difference between innovation and creativity
I will only argue my point of view from a technology perspective ( hence, it is not said that it can’t be used elsewhere)…
if you look up innovation on wikipedia you will see this =
“the process of making improvements by introducing something new”
if you look up creativity you will see this =
“creativity is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts”
But it is my understanding that a lot of people has a problem differing innovation from creativity.
What we came down to at the creativity workshop ( I conducted at Shift06 together with Dannie Jost) was that innovation was very hard to achieve nowadays - because so many things has allready been developed. Also the word is slightly misused by a lot of companies, kind off like a cool factor worn down.
Creativity on the contrary is in the eye of the beholder. It depends on the domain you are in and what culture you are exposing it to - mainly I would say it is very hard to be called creative in technology.
Are bloggers creative ? - well if you ask somebody who hasn’t read blogs before, then yes !. If you ask Doc Searls there’s probably a lot of things he has read already and he would characterize as “same old same old”…
we get more accustomed with other people’s experiences and ideas, in different domains.
the same would go if we talk about art. is street art creative ? - yes, if you live in a city where street art isn’t the norms. But if you allready own a Banksy book and live near Brick Lane in London, I doubt you will find new street art extremely creative.
so what is my point here ? that for people to do something ( projects, art, technology, blogs) that are creative, you have to show it to the right people. For creativity to take of, you have to find people that are not used to your kind of creativity.
that’s all !
October 6th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
This got me thinking of that old quote:
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
-Charles Duell, Dir. US Patent Office, 1899
I don’t think we are ever going to run out of innovation or creativity.
André Hedetoft
Geek Movie Director
Just created a game where you get to play with my real life over at http://www.andrehedetoft.com in the quest of turning me into the obvious geek movie director!
October 28th, 2006 at 8:10 am
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October 28th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
Yeaaah just happen to fall over banksys homepage today: http://www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/02_3.html
The coolest street art I have seen for a long time - My trip last weekend also ended up in Brick Lane, but I did not see more than one grafitti - bu tit was raining and I was running. Just blogged my trip to london with somenice links too, and please add comments - I dont think anyone reads my blog anymore - do you Henriette?
October 29th, 2006 at 10:24 am
banksy’s pieces on brick lame are the coolest *s*
I do read your blog - I just think that blogger changed you’re RSS feed, because when I think about it - it has been a long time since I have seen any posts from you =)
I will update it today