CREATIVITY

CREATIVITY

Definitions:

• Creativity is the ability to discover and create ideas and opportunities; to combine knowledge, experience and personal resources from different areas in new ways; • Innovativeness: the ability to look for novel ways of action.

Hint:

• Develop creative and purposeful ideas. Descriptors: • Develop ideas and opportunities to create value, including innovative solutions to new and existing challenges and/or improved solutions for already addressed challenges. • Explore and experiment with innovative approaches. • Combine knowledge and resources to achieve valuable effects. Thread as in EntreComp

FOUNDATION

Discover – Explore Relying on support from others

INTERMEDIATE

Experiment-Dare Building independence

ADVANCED

Improve-Reinforce Taking responsibility

EXPERT

Expand-Transform Driving transformation, innovation and growth

Act creatively

/Be curious and open Be open to new experience and change. Imagine/envision different alternatives to existing problems and solutions. Develop autonomy, freedom and independence to stay away from environmental (organisational) constraints. Develop a balance between being creative and imaginative and the orientation towards

action.

Challenge the status quo. Promote and lead disruptive

change.

Be a role model in the organisation by exerting influence on others.

Solve problems creatively/ Creative problem solving

Explore open-ended problems in different

ways, by taking different perspectives and using prior knowledge and experience. Relate problems to priori knowledge/experience.

Reshape/redefine openended problems so that solutions become available. Describe and develop

different problem-

solving strategies to provide creative solutions to complex problems. Help and inspire others to create value by encouraging experimentation and using creative techniques to approach problems and generate solutions.

Generate and nurture ideas Describe the process of idea generation, idea assessment and development.

Explain the differences between divergence and convergence in idea generation, and the factors that play in each of the stages.

Be innovative Identify examples of innovations that have transformed society. Describe how innovations diffuse in society, culture, and the market.

Explain the difference between different types of innovations (incremental, breakthrough, or transformational). Strategy different innovations in the business model, product or service, and marketing; as well as digital innovations. Manage and encourage innovation processes.

Connect unconnected

ideas and knowledge to produce novel and appropriate or useful outcomes.

Use and experiment with different techniques of idea generation that provide effective solutions to problems, using available resources.

Nurture an open

exchange of ideas, knowledge and opinions

across different departments. Set up processes to involve stakeholders in finding, developing and testing ideas. Design and develop processes within the organisation to nurture the creation of new and useful ideas through the dialogue among different functional departments and different agents within the organisation. Foster the creative culture. Allow for creative and innovation within the operational processes of the organisation.

[intrapreneurship context] Creation of a creativity culture that sustains, supports and fosters creativity in the organization.