What is creativity?
Q: What is creativity?
A: Creativity is the ability of a person or group to make something new and useful or valuable, or the process of making something new and useful or valuable.
Q: How can creativity be measured?
A: It is very difficult to measure creativity as a personal ability because we don't understand the mental processes that help some people be more creative than others.
Q: Is it possible to judge what is creative?
A: Judging what is creative can be controversial - some people say only things which are historically new are creative, while other people say that if it is new for the creator and the people around them, then it is also considered creativity.
Q: Does creativity make humans different from apes?
A: Some think that creativity makes humans different from apes, while others recognize that even apes, other primates, other mammals and some birds adapt to survive by being creative (for example - primates using tools).
Q: What does Liane Gabora believe about culture?
A: Liane Gabora believes that all culture comes from creativity, not imitation. Therefore, these people say human science should focus on it (pay special attention to it).
Q: How do intellectual interests reward creativity in law?
A: Intellectual interests (recognized as intellectual rights or intellectual property in the law) are a way to reward creativity in law but they do not always work very well. A good example is copyright which is supposed to pay authors and artists but may only pay lawyers to make (imitative) arguments in court.
Q: Are there ways to measure creativity in urban economics?
A:Yes, there are various ways to measure creativity in urban economics - the Bohemian Index and Gay Index are two attempts to do this accurately and predict the economic growth of cities based on creativity.
