Abstract
Any group consists of individuals. Once a person becomes a member of a group, however, his/her creativity will get affected under the influence of the social and cultural environment. This chapter compares and discusses individual and group creativity in China and Japan.
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Now, Nichia is a big company for its sales of 309.7 billion yen and 8400 employees (2013 fiscal year), but it was a small company in 1979.
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Finally, Shuji Nakamura was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano in October 2014.
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The author would like to thank Hideki Muneyoshi, the Director of the Institute of Creativity Education in Japan, for his valuable comments.
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Xu, F. (2016). Group Creativity and Individual Creativity: A Case Study of the Differences Between Japanese and Chinese Creativity. In: Dubina, I., Carayannis, E. (eds) Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Across Cultures. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3261-0_5
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