Creativity and Innovation : Theory, Research, and Practice

This award-winning book brings together some of the world's best thinkers and researchers to offer insights on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. The new edition features fully updated chapters, including expanded coverage of exciting topics such as group creativity, ethics, development, Makerspaces, and lessons from other fields.

Creativity and innovation are frequently mentioned as key 21st-century skills for career and life success. Indeed, recent research provides evidence that the jobs of the future will increasingly require the ability to bring creative solutions to complex problems. The second edition of Creativity and Innovation:

• Brings together some of the world''s best thinkers and researchers on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
• Features fully updated chapters.
• Provides a comprehensive but highly readable overview of exciting, important topics.
• Expands coverage of group creativity, ethics, development, Makerspaces, and lessons from other fields.
• Emphasizes the educational applications of creativity topics.

Creativity is often the spice of life, that little extra something that makes the mundane into the interesting, making our routines into fresh new approaches to our daily lives. Over the past quarter century, our understanding of creativity has advanced significantly—we know more about what it is (and isn''t), we better understand how to foster it, and we have deeper, more complex knowledge about how it relates to intelligence, leadership, personality, and other constructs.