An article about how creativity and innovation differ and how imagination is a crucial element to making them function and interact.

2. The Conflict of
the Mind:
Creativity VS
Innovation

3. Creativity is about connecting the dots that
haven’t been connected before.
- More human
- Expression and thought
- Linked to emotion
- A creative idea can be killed by bad
execution.

4. Innovation is about creating roads and
processes for ideas to move forward.
- Rarely emotional
- More rational
- Dependent of ideas
- Logical & down-to-earth

5. John Seely Brown is a researcher specializing in organizational
studies.
- Contrast between imagination & creativity, and its link with
innovation.
- Imagination is “taking something strange and making it familiar”;
Creativity is the opposite
-The deepest form of innovation will never work without
imagination.

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