'Creativity involves the creation of:ñ A novel product which has value (some criterion of usefulness)ï To the individualï To a larger social groupBut the study of creativity by psychologists has neither clarified nor simplified the problem any further,' she started.Definitions include:* PeopleìCreativity is best described as the human capacity regularly to solve problems or to fashion products in a domain, in a way that is initially novel but ultimately acceptable in a culture.î (Gardner, 1989)* ProductsìCreative products, be they poems, scientific theories, paintings or technological advances, are both novel and acknowledged to be valuable or useful in some way.î (Gilhooly, 1982)* ProcessìCreativity is a process that can be observed only at the intersection where individuals, domains and fields intersect.î (Csikszentmihalyi, 1999)
