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Innovation Entrepreneurship

What is Creativity?  Creativity is the ability to generate original ideas  But novelty is not enough  Creativity must be  Appropriate to the situation and problem  Creativity is the connecting and rearranging of knowledge  In the minds of people who lead themselves  To generate new, often surprising, ideas that can improve quality of human life

We Are All Creative  Individuals are unique in terms of capacities  Each has different ways of expressing  Talents  Knowledge  Values  Interests  All have capacity to be creative  But express this potential differently  We become creative with our own unique blend of the 4 styles  Visioning  Exploring  Experimenting  Modifying

Arenas in which People are Creative  People are inherently creative  People do not recognize when or how they are being creative  They fail to recognize the many opportunities for creativity that arise in their jobs on a daily basis  People can channel their creativity in seven different arenas  Idea creativity  Material creativity  Organization creativity  Relationship creativity  Event creativity  Inner creativity  Spontaneous creativity

Capacity, Mode and Expression  Visioning  Talents  Exploring  Knowledge  Experimenting  Values  Modifying  Interests  Idea creativity  Material creativity  Organization creativity  Relationship creativity  Event creativity  Inner creativity  Spontaneous creativity

Are We  As creative as we want to be? or  As often as we want to be?

Three Components of Creativity Motivation

General Characteristics of Ordinary Thinking  Our thoughts follow one from another or are related to one another  Our thinking has structure  Ordinary thinking depends on the past  Our thought exhibits continuity with the past  Knowledge and concepts direct ordinary thinking  Ordinary thinking can be influenced by environmental events  Our thought is sensitive to environmental factors Everyone takes the limits of his/her own vision for the limits of the world

Thinking Without Thinking Read these words CIRCLE SQUARE TRIANGLE RECTANGLE Read these words SQUARE TRIANGLE CIRCLE RECTANGLE Now, say the shape , NOT the name of the word SQUARE TRIANGLE CIRCLE RECTANGLE

Thinking Without Thinking Again say the shape , NOT the name of the word RECTANGLE SQUARE CIRCLE TRIANGLE And finally, say the shape , NOT the name of the word SQUASH TRIPLET CIRCUS READING

Automatic Processing vs Effortful Tasks  Speed Processing Theory  Interference occurs because words are read faster than shapes are named  Selective Attention Theory  Interference occurs because naming shape requires more attention than reading words  Response Competition Theory  Interference occurs because the normal, that is, more dominant, response to a word is to say its name

A N L U P M H E A R B A E L T S S

Equal? Parallel?

How Many Spirals?

How Many Legs Does This Elephant Have?

Two-Faced

Looking with Creativity

The Art of Seeing  Interchangeable lenses  Normal focal length: perspective similar to eye  Telephoto lens: make distant objects near; also focus on one part of scene  Wide-angle lens: take in more of the scene, emphasize distance between objects  Lens selection enables framing the subject in a number of interesting and creative ways

The Art of Seeing …cont  Manipulation of elements like  Lighting  Image exposure  Angle to compose highly creative photographs  Shooting pictures is a numbers game  The best way to come up with one great image is to shoot many photographs  During shooting, it’s hard to envision which combination will yield the best images

The Art of Seeing …cont  Creativity is all about the art of “seeing”  Looking at situation as everyone else, but  Seeing something different  A problem may need  Focus on a specific aspect  Widening our mental perspective  Taking a mental “walk” around the problem or opportunity to view it from multiple perspectives

George Mistral’s Way of Seeing  Taking walk in the forest  Burrs sticking to his clothes and dog’s fur  Examined under microscope  hundreds of "hooks" that caught on anything with a loop, such as clothing, animal fur, or hair  saw the possibility of binding two materials reversibly in a simple fashion  if he could figure out how to duplicate the hooks and loops  Originally people refused to take him, and the idea, seriously

George Mistral Fastens Things  Tried cotton  Did not work well  Explored synthetic materials  Discovered nylon, when sewn under infrared light,  forms hooks that were perfect for the hook side of the fastener  found that nylon thread, when woven in loops and heat-treated, retains its shape and is resilient  Mechanizing the process took 8 years  Obtained patent in 1955  Announced “ Zipless Zipper”

The Tortuous Path New Creation Doing ng again ain

Three Components of Creativity Grameen Bank for microcredit Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Loans to nearly 7 million poor people in 73,000 villages in Bangladesh. Support and expand these very small businesses, and that help many overcome their poverty. Much to The Grameen Yunus' surprise, the model moved on basket weavers actually Motivation to more than 100 paid off the loans -- and countries on time too. He then moved from one village to worldwide and the next, finding all sorts helped millions of entrepreneurial projects to fund.

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