The difference between creativity and innovation

Website design By BotEap.comI think creativity is actually thinking of new concepts/things. Innovation is making this new concept/thing practical in a new way. Creativity is dreaming of a new invention and innovation is making it come true in its own unique way. When you bring something new into existence, you can say that you created it. You can’t say you innovated it. And again, when you improve something that already exists, you can’t say you created it, but you can say you innovated it.

Website design By BotEap.comHenry Ford created the assembly line for automobile production. The Japanese refined this concept by introducing their own unique innovations/changes/improvements. Many people are creative, but they are not innovative enough to make their creations practical. Innovation makes creativity practical and efficient. Most inventors fail because they are not innovative enough. Most of the painters are creative but when they introduce innovation in their creation/art they become artists. Without creativity there is no product/concept that needs implementation and once something new is thought of, it needs innovation. Research and development is about innovation. Sometimes innovation may lead to making the creation impractical and thus this new creative idea may be abandoned and a new creative idea may be born, thus innovation may lead to creativity. Innovation is giving a new direction to an existing idea.

Website design By BotEap.comThere is confusion and confusion between creativity and innovation because in fact innovation is about creating new ways to implement the existing/created concept. Therefore, they both have creativity in them. Innovation also involves elements of creativity.

Website design By BotEap.comAll Ph.D. courses are to investigate innovative ways to do the old in a better and more efficient way. Innovation consists of solving existing problems. At a deeper level, innovation is research. In research institutes they are creating better and better innovations for existing solutions. One does not require a Ph.D. for creativity, but for innovation at the highest cutting-edge level, a Ph.D. is almost an essential requirement. In fact, at the university level, innovation is preferred to creativity. Any newly created idea is doubted until it can be scientifically defined, measured and proven, and this involves complex and time-consuming research, not to mention finances. However, anything that is already in use and has proven its usefulness, any improvement through innovation is wholeheartedly accepted. My own invention, ‘Vacuum Power Generators’ is based on a sound principle that ‘nature abhors a vacuum’; however, it was rejected at the highest levels of the US government because of another sound principle: ‘The Law of Conservation of Energy’. The law of conservation of energy says that the energy you put in will return less due to friction. But in nature there are exceptions to this law! Hydraulic pressure, fulcrum power, they all give back more energy than they take. And vacuum energy is the fulcrum of wind power. But it is an untested and too radical idea and it also requires tons of money to prototype. On the other hand, my little innovation of adjusting a small improvement in the baby milk bottle that I was able to sell immediately.

Website design By BotEap.comCreativity is essential for innovation because a product must exist at least in a concept stage because you cannot innovate anything that does not exist. Thus, innovation depends on creativity, while creativity does not depend on innovation. Although the best success of creativity depends on innovation.

Website design By BotEap.comCreativity = Invention while Innovation = Improvements = Changes to make it effective and efficient = Make it practical = Research new ways to produce and improve Creativity = The act of producing the same concept in a newer and better way.

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