Conference "Can creativity be measured?"
Contributions
28 May - Session 1: Commission initiatives on indicators and its relationship to creativity
- Measuring complex constructs using composite indicators: methodological issues – Andrea Saltelli (European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre - IPSC)
- The regional dimension of creativity and innovation - Lewis Dijkstra (European Commission, DG Regional Policies)
- Measuring innovation: experiences past, present and future - Keith Sequeira (European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry)
- Is it possible to measure scientific creativity? - Johan Stierna (European Commission, DG Research)
- The joint OECD/Eurostat Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme - Manfred Schmiemann (European Commission, EUROSTAT)
- Towards a European Creativity Index - Philip Kern (KEA European Affairs)
28 May - Session 2: Measuring specific aspects of creativity
- Contributions of Leisure and Culture to the creativity of a region - Cristina Ortega Nuere (Institute of Leisure Studies of Deusto University, Spain & ENCATC Working Group of Cultural Observatories andCultural Information and Knowledge)
- Flanders District of Creativity - Pascal Cools (Flanders DC)
- Tolerance, Heterogeneity, Creativity and Economic Growth - Thomas Tiemann (Elon University, USA)
- Creative Class and Regional Growth - Empirical Evidence from Seven European Countries - Ron Boschma (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
- Innovation Index in the UK - Mark Franklin (UK Office for National Statistics)
28 May - Session 3: Two examples on the measurement of creativity at the aggregate level
- Creativity at Work in the European Union - Edward Lorenz (CNRS, France)
- Design and Construction of the Hong Kong Creativity Index - John Bacon-Shone (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
28 May - Session 4: Round table on Indicator approaches for creativity and education at an aggregate level
- Measuring Creativity and Innovation - Hugo Hollanders (Maastricht University - MERIT, the Netherlands)
29 May - Session 1: Creativity research and its measurement – An overview
- A Systems Perspective on Creativity and its Implications for Measurement - Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi (School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences, the Claremont Graduate University, USA)
29 May - Session 2 : Approaches to the measurement of creativity at the individual level
- Creativity and its assessment: an individual differences perspective - Todd Lubart (Université Paris Descartes, France)
- Personality and creativity - Rosa Aurora Chavez-Eakle (Washington DC Creativity Consultant and Psychotherapist, USA)
- The Dialectical Evolution of Divergent Thinking Tests – Mark Runco (University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA)
- The Tried, the True, and the Transpiring in Creativity Assessment – Patrick Kyllonen (Educational Testing Service (ETS), USA)
29 May - Session 3: Round Table on Steps towards cross-national surveys on creative competences
- Towards cross-national assessment of creativity - Rosa Aurora Chavez-Eakle (Washington DC Creativity Consultant and Psychotherapist, USA)
29 May - Session 4: Creativity and key competences
- Fostering and Measuring Creativity – Individuals, Organisations and Products - David Cropley (University of South Australia, Australia)
- Creative Learning Assessment (CLA): a framework for developing children’s creativity - Sue Ellis (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, UK)
- Teaching creativity and innovation: a strategy for the future - Petra Perez (Institute of Creativity and Innovation in Education, University of the Valencia)
- ICT as a driver for creative learning and innovative teaching: An analysis of practices - Yves Punie (European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre - IPTS)
