Creativity in arts and sciences: Collective processes from a spatial perspective

Abstract

Setting the sceneCreativity lies at the core of academic breakthroughs and masterpieces of art and is increasingly considered as the driving force of industries, economies and knowledge-based society (Florida, 2005;Törnqvist, 2011;Shiu, 2014).It has evolved from a rather specialized topic in (social) psychology (e.g., Csikszentmihalyi, 1997;Guilford, 1950;Koestler, 1964) to a central and interdisciplinary concern across the social sciences and a buzzword in public debates.In a first approximation, creativity can be specified as a novel and valuable contribution to a particular domain (Amabile, 1996;Csikszentmihalyi, 1997).However, each constitutive element in this definition is contested.Novelty, for instance, is not a given quasi-objective quality of objects or ideas.Rather, the degree and extent of novelty have to be negotiated among participants.A historically unique novelty that is distinct from existing contributions is

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