I've been pondering this for a while: is there a practical difference between creativity and innovation? I believe there is.
The study of creativity as a process is fairly young, and hard to pin down. The use of the term creativity to describe so many phenomena muddies the water. If by creative one means artistic, the scope is limited somewhat. However, if the term means bring something to be, the field is opened quite a bit.
Likewise the term innovation often covers everything from recombination to introduction of the new into an environment.
For the purpose of my Creative Bible Teaching course, I'm using creative to mean make something new, and innovation to mean introduce something new. This, I think, gives me a good range of flexibility with the concepts, while keeping them practical and applicable.
When we use a game in a sermon, we innovate. When we write a script for a drama, we create.
What I'm pondering next (other than how to rule the world) is whether these two concepts derive from the same processes.
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