The difference between creativity and innovation

I think creativity is actually thinking of new concepts/things. Innovation is making this new concept/thing practical in a novel way. Creativity is dreaming of a new invention and innovation is making it happen in your own unique way. When you bring something new into existence, you can say that you created it. You can’t say you innovated it. And again, when you improve something that already exists, you can’t say you created it, but you can say you innovated it.

Henry Ford created the assembly line for automobile production. The Japanese perfected this concept by introducing their own unique innovations/changes/improvements. Many people are creative, but they are not innovative enough to make their creations practical. Innovation makes creativity practical and efficient. Most inventors fail because they are not innovative enough. Most of the painters are creative but when they introduce innovation in their creation/art they become artists. Without creativity, there is no product/concept that needs implementation and once something new is thought up, innovation is needed. Research and development is all about innovation. Sometimes innovation may lead to making the creation impractical, and therefore this new creative idea may be abandoned, and a new creative idea may be born, thus innovation may lead to creativity. Innovation is giving a new direction to an existing idea.

There is confusion and confusion between creativity and innovation because in fact innovation is about creating new ways to implement existing/created concept. Therefore, both have creativity in them. Innovation also involves elements of creativity.

All PhD courses are to investigate innovative ways of doing the old in a better and more efficient way. Innovation is about solving existing problems. At a deeper level, innovation is research. In the research institutes are creating ever better innovations for existing solutions. One does not require a PhD for creativity, but for innovation at the highest cutting-edge level, a PhD is almost an essential requirement. In fact, at the university level innovation is preferred to creativity. Newly created ideas are doubted until they can be scientifically defined, measured and tested, and this involves complex and time-consuming investigations, not to mention finances. However, anything that is already in use and has proven its worth, any improvement through innovation is wholeheartedly accepted. My own invention, ‘Vacuum Power Generators’ is based on a sound principle that ‘nature abhors a vacuum’; however, it was rejected at the highest levels of the US government due to another strong principle: ‘The Law of Conservation of Energy’. The law of conservation of energy says that the energy you put in will return less due to friction. But in nature there are exceptions to this law! Hydraulic pressure, fulcrum power, they all put more energy back than they take in. And the energy of the vacuum is the fulcrum of wind energy. But it’s an unproven idea and too radical and it also requires tons of money to make a prototype. On the other hand, my little innovation of tweaking a little improvement on the baby milk bottle that I was able to sell right away.

Creativity is essential for innovation because a product must exist at least at a concept stage because you can’t innovate anything that doesn’t exist. Thus, innovation depends on creativity, while creativity does not depend on innovation. Although the best success of creativity depends on innovation.

Creativity = Invention while Innovation = Improvements = Changes to make it effective and efficient = Making it practical = Investigating new ways of producing and improving Creativity = The act of producing the same concept in a newer and improved form.