From Innovation vs. Invention(PDF), written by William Buxton
Too often the obsession is with ‘inventing’ something totally unique, rather than extracting value from the creative understanding of what is already known.
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Here is the business lesson: innovation is far more about prospecting, mining, refining and adding value to ‘gold’ than it is about alchemy. Rather than focusing on the invention of the ‘brand new’, one might better strive for creative insights on how to combine, develop and leverage what is already out there, but hidden, or not understood.
From Upping the Ante on Creativity, written by Luc de Brabandere
Innovations arise from looking at how things are—existing business operations and processes, for example—and considering how they might be “tweaked” to make them better. This is our left brains, our old reliable analytical engines, at work. Left-brain, innovative thinking is fundamental, and something we should be, and usually are, doing all the time.
Creative thinking, on the other hand, comes from stepping out of our day-to-day reality and seeing things from a drastically new perspective. This radical change in viewpoints allows us not to just tweak the system, but often to replace it wholesale with something that’s dramatically superior, and which is often described later as coming from “out of the blue.” Call it a “paradigm shift” or a “Gestalt change”—whatever you like—what it boils down to is right-brain, non-analytical activity.
From Creation vs. Invention, written by Carey C.K. Smith
The author argues that string figures, being works of art, are created, not invented.
Sorry, I don’t know who is the ‘author’.
Shortly, innovation is adding values on existing things, and creation/invention is creating a new thing. But string figures and being works of art is creation, not invention. I think the different between creation and invention is, invention bring a ‘real product’. I can’t explain it exactly, do you have any recommendation to me? Thank you.
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