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Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Creative achievement; Creative potential; Creative process; Creative thinking; Discretion; Parsimony

Scientific studies of creativity can be found as far back as the 1930s. There were investigations before that time, but these were tangential to creativity and tended to target invention, imagination, and correlates of creativity rather than creativity per se. Certainly the field has evolved in a number of ways since the 1930s. There are now several academic and professional journals devoted to creativity (see “Journals on Creativity and Innovation”) and fairly well-defined ties to innovation, health, counseling, education, and the neurosciences. There has also been a dramatic increase in objectivity and use of traditional scientific methods to study creativity.

The increased objectivity is apparent in the kinds of research being conducted and published. At one time, around 1960–1970, most of the research focused on the creative personality. Much of this work was being done at...

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  • Barron F. No rootless flower: An ecology of creativity. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press; 1995.

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  • Runco MA. Insight for creativity, expression for impact. Creat Res J. 1995;8:377–90.

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  • Runco MA. Personal creativity: definition and developmental issues. New Dir Child Dev. 1996; 1996:3–30.

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  • Runco MA. Creativity: theories and themes: research, development, and practice (rev. ed.). San Diego: Academic; 2014.

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  • Runco MA, Jaeger G. The standard definition of creativity. Creat Res J. 2012;24:92–6.

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  1. Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, USA

    Mark A. Runco

  2. American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, Vista, CA, USA

    Mark A. Runco

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  1. Novosibirsk National Research State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Igor N. Dubina

  2. Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia

    Igor N. Dubina

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Runco, M.A. (2019). Personal Creativity. In: Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6616-1_200055-1

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