Creativity and Education

The Top 12 TED Talks on creativity and education.
http://www.saybrook.edu/forum/creativity/creativity-resources

The Componential Theory of Creativity

The componential theory of creativity is a comprehensive model of the social and psychological components necessary for an individual to produce creative work. The theory is grounded in a definition of creativity as the production of ideas or outcomes that are both novel and appropriate to some goal. In this theory, four components are necessary for any creative response: three components within the individual – domain relevant skills, creativity-relevant processes, and intrinsic task motivation – and one component outside the individual – the social environment in which the individual is working.


More here: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-096.pdf

The Creative Edge on Facebook

A lot of links to creativity research, articles, sites etc can now be found on my facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Creative-Edge/271547596234802
Feel free to go there and LIKE the page and you will have automatic updates on creativity related matters.
Cheers
Wayne

Thinking Creatively: Just Add Milk

Shaking up everyday rituals — even the order of preparing a breakfast dish — may be a way to stimulate innovative thinking.
http://www.psmag.com/culture-society/thinking-creatively-just-add-milk-39972/

How to make a region innovative

To foster economic growth, innovation clusters need to draw on the power of an interrelated “quad” of sectors: public, private, civil, and academic.
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/12103?gko=ee74a

Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business School professor and the world's most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50, lays out his landmark theory. http://blogs.hbr.org/video/2012/03/disruptive-innovation-explaine.html?referral=00056&cm_mmc=hbd-_-syndication-_-HBSExecEd-_-2010&spMailingID=4062085&spUserID=MjQxOTA0MTU4NTIS1&spJobID=124762181&spReportId=MTI0NzYyMTgxS0