Creativity and Innovation: Basic Concepts and Approaches

Tang, Min

doi:10.1142/9789813141889_0001

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“…In both years, the SC and SA mediate the positive relation between creativity and creative fame and the mediating effect of both social factors is stronger for the nomination from the meritorious than the aesthetic areas. This result confirms the relevance and importance of the sociocultural approaches to creativity (for a review, see Sawyer, 2012 ; Tang, 2017 ), which provide very promising diagrams for studying creativity across domains and cultures.…”

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“…Modern sociocultural theories of creativity maintain that creativity is not only a personal but also social construct, which involves an interaction of multiple factors in and outside the person (for a review see Tang, 2017 ). Hence, creativity can be optimally examined only if both the individual and environmental variables are taken into account.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Creativity Alone Does Not Make a Star – Social Attributes of the Nomination of Creative Icons: Results of a Trend Study in Germany

2018

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Recent years have witnessed a series of studies of the nomination of the most creative persons using a cross-sectional design. Such studies only provide a “snapshot” of the creativity nomination phenomenon without being able to detect the temporal pattern of the nomination over time. The current study is among the first of such studies that use a time series design. Data were collected from German young adults in 2013 (n = 460, Mage = 28.3, SD = 9.9) and in 2017 (n = 617, Mage = 31.4, SD = 10.6). Consistent patterns emerge from the nomination of the top 10 most creative Germans: (1) Artists are predominantly represented; (2) Male creators are predominantly nominated; (3) Einstein ranks the first in both lists followed by Goethe; (4) Merkel is the only female nominee in both lists. Analysis of all nomination in both years reconfirmed the aesthetic salience and male-dominance and these patterns were more likely to occur in earlier than later nominations. Regression analysis revealed that social contribution (SC) and social acceptance (SA) each mediated the positive relation between creativity and creative fame. Further, the three-path mediation model of creativity on creative fame through SC and SA was also significant for both nomination conditions, with stronger mediating effect on the nomination from the meritorious than the aesthetic areas. Domain-specificity theories and social psychological theories were used to interpret the results.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Creativity Alone Does Not Make a Star – Social Attributes of the Nomination of Creative Icons: Results of a Trend Study in Germany

2018

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“…It provides chances in terms of the growth of schools and allows them to gain competitive advantages as well (Hsiao et al, 2014). Creativity is a significant component of innovative work behavior (De Jong & Den Hartog, 2010;Tang, 2017). However, innovation is broader than creativity which includes not only the generation of new ideas but also the application of ideas (Gilson & Litchfield, 2017).…”

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Towards teacher innovative work behavior: A conceptual model

Hosseini

Shirazi

2021

Cogent Education

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“…The sociocultural psychology of individual creativity maintains that creativity involves an interaction of multiple factors both inside and outside the person, and that these individual and the environmental components must converge for creativity to occur (see a review, Tang, 2017). Since teams are composed of individuals, this approach can also apply to team creativity.…”

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Fostering Creativity in Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Teams: The VICTORY Model

Tang

2019

Front. Psychol.

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Teams are pervasive in the history of mankind. Particularly in our fast-growing modern society, teams composed of members from different cultures and disciplines are quite often used at the workplace. Though widely used, the effectiveness of teams is inconsistent. Meta-analyses report a double-edged effect of diversity on creativity and innovation, suggesting that diversity needs to be tactfully managed if we want to leverage the creative potential of teams. The current paper strives to meet this challenge and makes recommendations on how to foster creativity in intercultural and interdisciplinary teams. It discusses the concepts of teams vs. groups and creativity vs. innovation. Drawing upon sociocultural theories of creativity and innovation, particularly literature reviews and meta-analyses, this paper attempts to identify non-cognitive, cognitive and environmental enablers of team creativity. The VICTORY model offers a summary of these enablers, as it focuses on team (T) and synthesizes both non-cognitive (Vision, Openness, Risk-taking, Yes-I-Can Mindset) and cognitive (Ideation, Combination) antecedents of team creativity. Yet it is only through the combination and integration of environmental factors (including communication, collaboration, and support, among others) that the effect of these antecedents can be fully realized.

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Creativity and Innovation: Basic Concepts and Approaches

Cited by 21 publications

References 134 publications

Creativity Alone Does Not Make a Star – Social Attributes of the Nomination of Creative Icons: Results of a Trend Study in Germany

Creativity Alone Does Not Make a Star – Social Attributes of the Nomination of Creative Icons: Results of a Trend Study in Germany

Towards teacher innovative work behavior: A conceptual model

Fostering Creativity in Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Teams: The VICTORY Model

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