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Creativity: Who, How, Where?

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Human creativity is both individual and collective. As symbols, signs, brands, and other intangibles grow in importance, the search for creativity and how to manage it has increased in importance. Organizations such as corporations and research institutions try to enhance and manage the collective creativity of their employees, but creativity remains to a large degree both unpredictable and unmanageable. The location of creativity is mainly urban, as people interact within cities to generate creative places and urban creative scenes. Just as creativity cannot be managed completely, it cannot be fully planned.

This chapter has benefited from the comments of Michael C. Ewers and the participants at the Interdisciplinary Symposium on “Knowledge and the Economy,” Heidelberg, Germany, June 2008, and from discussions with Bruno Moriset.

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Malecki, E.J. (2013). Creativity: Who, How, Where?. In: Meusburger, P., Glückler, J., el Meskioui, M. (eds) Knowledge and the Economy. Knowledge and Space, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6131-5_5

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