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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Exploring measures at the individual level
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Creativity and key competences |
| Hélène Clark (Directorate-General for Education and Culture) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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