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Measuring Creativity: the book

The International Conference "Can creativity be measured?" offered an overview of the different ways of measuring creativity at national, regional and individual levels. As a first step towards tackling this challenge, Measuring Creativity looks at all these perspectives and provides a wide analysis of measuring specific aspects related to creativity.


Preface




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Foreword

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Summary

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Acknowledgements

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President Barroso’s message to the conference 'Can creativity be measured?'

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Opening speech from the Director-General of the Joint Research Centre, Dr Roland Schenkel

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Introductory speech by Jordi Curell Gotor





Introduction




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Is it really possible to measure creativity?

Ernesto Villalba (Center for Research on Lifelong Learning)




Exploring measures at the aggregate level




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How about composite indicators?

Andrea Saltelli and Ernesto Villalba ( Directorate-General Joint Research Center, European Commission)




Innovation and creativity




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Measuring innovation: the European Innovation Scoreboard

Hugo Hollanders (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University)

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Design, Creativity and Innovation: a scoreboard approach

Hugo Hollanders and Adriana van Cruysen (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University)

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Measuring creativity and innovation based on knowledge capital investment

Tony Clayton (ONS), Mariela Dal Borgo (University of Warwick), Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College, London), Mark Franklin (ONS)

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Design and construction of the Hong Kong Creativity Index

John Bacon-Shone (Social Sciences Research Center, The University of Hong Kong), Desmond Hui (Center for Culture and Development, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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Is it possible to measure scientific creativity? Some first elements of reflection

Johan Stierna (Directorate-General Research) and Ernesto Villalba (Directorate-General Joint Research Center)




The creative class and entrepreneurship




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The regional dimension of creativity and innovation

Lewis Dijkstra (Directorate-General for Regional Policy)

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Linking creativity and entrepreneurship: a description of the joint OECD/Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators programme

Manfred Schmiemann (Eurostat)

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Creativity at work in the European Union

Edward Lorenz (CNRS-University of Nice) and Bengt-Aake Lundval (University of Aalborg)




Openness and culture




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Tolerance, heterogeneity, creativity, and economic growth

Thomas Tiemann, Cassandra DiRienzo, and Jayoti Das, (Economics Department, Elon University, USA)

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KEA briefing: towards a European creativity index

Philip Kern and Jan Runge (KEA European Affairs)

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The Roles of Creative Industries in Regional Innovation and Knowledge Transfer — The Case of Austria

Simone Kimpeler and Peter Georgieff (Fraunhofer Institute Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Germany)

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Contribution of leisure to creativity and innovation of a region

Manuel Cuenca Cabeza, Roberto San Salvador del Valle, Eduardo Aguilar and Cristina Ortega (Institute of Leisure Studies, University of Deusto)




Exploring measures at the individual level




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Creativity and key competences

Hélène Clark (Directorate-General for Education and Culture)




General Measurement approaches




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Creativity and personality

Rosa Aurora Chávez-Eakle, M.D., Ph.D. (Washington International Center for Creativity and The Johns Hopkins University)

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Fostering and measuring creativity and innovation: individuals, organisations and products

David H. Cropley (Defence and Systems Institute, University of South Australia)

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Creation in science, art and everyday life: ideas on creativity and its varying conceptions

Yrjö-Paavo Häyrynen (University of Joensuu and Helsinki University)





Creativity, measurement and education




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Researching, measuring and teaching creativity and innovation: a strategy for the future

Petra Mª Pérez Alonso-Geta (Institute of Creativity and Educational Innovation, University of Valencia)

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Creative Learning Assessment (CLA): a framework for developing and assessing children’s creative learning

Sue Ellis (Center for Literacy in Primary Education )

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Promoting creativity in education and the role of measurement

Marilyn Fryer (The Creative Centre Ltd)

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The role of education in promoting creativity: potential barriers and enabling factors

Pasi Sahlberg (European Training Foundation)

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ICT as a driver for creative learning and innovative teaching

Anusca Ferrari, Romina Cachia and Yves Punie (Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Directorate-General Joint Research Center)

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Proposing measures to promote the education of creative and collaborative knowledge-builders

François Taddei and Livio Riboli Sasco (Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires, Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes)




Concluding remarks




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Parsimonious creativity and its measurement

Mark A. Runco (Torrance Creativity Center, University of Georgia, Athens)

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A systems perspective on creativity and its implications for measurement

Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi (School of Behavioral and Organisational Sciences, the Claremont Graduate University)

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Closing speech to the conference ‘Can creativity be measured?

Hélène Clark (Directorate-General for Education and Culture)

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Concluding remarks

Andrea Saltelli (Directorate-General Joint Research Center)

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Creativity measurement in the European Policy context

Anders Hingel (Directorate-General for Education and Culture)




Annexes