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Creativity—Comments to the Scientific Process

Knowledge Production Referring to Traditional Knowledge

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In the general understanding, the word creativity primarily means the property of an individual creating something that is new or original and useful [1–3].

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Haß, EC., Plath, P.J. (2022). Creativity—Comments to the Scientific Process. In: Imagery Synergetics. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95607-3_13

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