Saturday, June 26, 2010

Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

There are many things out there, things which are categorize as superb or simply out of what people normally expect to come out. How do these things created?

NOVELTY
Novelty. What is novelty? Based on Wikipedia, novelty is defined as the quality of being new. Although it may be said to have an objective dimension, it essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals. It also refers to quality of something that which is striking, original or unusual. In other words, novelty is the line of quality of new creations. Therefore it's originality is not a decisive feature of creative work and is always based on what has been created before. A historical approach implies that it is understood in either terms of contrast with a context and transformation of what was borrowed. the tendency for performance to initially improve when new technology is instituted, not because of any actual improvement in learning or achievement, but in response to increased interest in the new technology. Things which are new doesn't mean is has the quality of being new. For example, gas stove evolve into a an electronic stove doesn't mean it had the quality of being new, as it is the same thing with different source of energy.
CREATIVITY
Secondly, creativity. We've always heard of be creative, being creative, creativenesss and much much more. What are those actually? It
is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest them from thought into reality. The ability to create something new, something which doesn't exist in this world yet and the creation is original as it's the first generation of its type, yet caught large attention and leave huge impact on peoples memory. Normally, the most important part to start a work or to create something, is the idea. The element which we imply within that idea is that which makes a difference with the others. We could imply the elements of creativity within the idea we are working on hence thinking things which are new and fresh to the world. Creativity does not happen inside people's head. but happens in the interaction between a person's thoughts and a sociocultural context. Creativity are often judged as the ability to create something different from other people. For example, the picture above is something creative, however, beautiful pictures taken by other people does not count as creative, is more into beauty category.
INNOVATION
Innovation is a change in the thought process for doing something, or the useful application of new inventions or discoveries. Innovation is the ability to change or to improve something to make it better, in other words, to enhance something which already exist or to make something work in a way. For example, when I was young, I remembered my parents doesn't have enough money to make a basketball hoop for me to play at, therefore, in order to enable my siblings and me to have fun, my mom decided to use an old big basket cut it into half, tying it onto a lamp post in front of my house compound and we get to have fun. Mostly, humans are very innovative in some ways in order to make their life easier and comfortable. Some show innovation in dealing with matters while some show innovation in drawings, creating something.

INVENTION
An invention is a new composition, device or process. An invention may be derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived in which case it may be a radical breakthrough. Invention is actually the part where we have fun and learn things. This is the part where you get to realize or to make the things that you though about to come true. In this stage, we get to learn from our mistakes and learn new things that we could never learn in other places, knowing the mistakes and not resolving in the same mistake twice. Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge or experience. Invention are something new created by inventors who take existing knowledge and generate new ideas or in other word invention is an open and curious mind enables one to see beyond what is known to enable inventors to think outside the box.

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