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from Part I - In Search of Creativity Science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 July 2021
This chapter basically describes how I arrived at the theoretical model for how to analyze or interpret concrete cases of pioneering work. For a creativity science to be possible, we must broaden our knowledge base and avoid the temptation to study only scientific, artistic or technological forms of creativity or some narrow aspect, the approach of specialized disciplines. Nor should creativity science merely foreground one level of creativity such as pioneers, professionals or novices but ask what constrains the three levels and how the transitions between these levels come about in practice. Creativity science should also avoid the temptation to define creativity as novelty or originality. This is best seen by studying the creativity of nature where creative solutions are characterized by parsimony. Studying n-creativity is also of help to identify the important role of protection of vulnerable versions and recognize Aristotle as the founder of creativity science.
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