Creativity and Innovation

From creativity does innovation arise?

Previously I had already talked a little about creativity, but if you do not remember it, creativity is the ability we have to be able to think of new methods / possibilities to be able to invent or create something new or improve something, they can be objects, ideas, representations, etc. So if we think this about creativity, can we say that innovation comes from creativity? Well, how many times we have not wanted to create something new but we always find that it has already been created ?, or that we realize that there are several similar articles but one is more successful than another? well, there is a big difference between creativity and innovation.

Creativity is thinking of new and appropriate ideas, while innovation is the successful application of ideas within an organization. In other words, creativity is the concept and innovation is the process.

Creativity and innovation

Let's determine more about the differences between these two concepts. According to the RAE, innovation is the creation or modification of a product, and its introduction into a market, while creativity is the ability to create, therefore what differs between these two concepts is the approach we give it, creativity puts us to fund the purpose of unlocking our potential from our mind to make known the different methods for the realization of something. It is subjective.

  

Innovation on the other hand is measurable. It's about changing stable systems. It focuses on having viable ideas. All this arises since we want to satisfy some need, therefore creativity can be used to bring some innovation to our lives.

Clearly all this is not easy, today there are so many things created or applied that it is very difficult to create or apply something that has not already been created by other people, but do not worry, there is everything has its moment and the only thing that one you must do is have the line of separation between creativity and innovation well marked in order to make correct use of each one, in the same way there are several ways to promote creativity and innovation, such as the following:

  

Ways to encourage or stimulate creativity

• Propose challenges
• To motivate
• Encourage active participation
• Give greater autonomy
• Generate variety, avoiding stagnation.

Ways to practice innovation:

• Foster creativity (which is what generates ideas to innovate)
• Eradicate the fear of failure
• Be attentive to market changes
• Launch new products, services or process changes.