Creativity, innovation and collaborative organizations

This article intends to make a contribution to the clarification of the concepts of creativity and innovation using a multilevel approach of individual, group and organization, in order to show that these may be better integrated within collaborative organizations. Trying to maintain the principle of the primacy of the individual (creativity) over the business (innovation), we stressed the cognitive and emotional processes (when speaking of creativity) and power and communi- cation (when it comes to innovation). Following on a description of group processes that try to combine creativity and innovation, we address the measurement of innovation, concluding with the need to avoid classifying an organization as innovative or non-innovative. The latter judgment should be left to the market itself. At the organizational level, we gave primacy to the concept of "organizational innovation", as it is within this framework that the best fusion between creativity and innovation may be achieved. Finally, we address collaboration in business as connecting people, ideas, and resources that would not normally interact with each The International Journal of Organizational Innovation Vol 5 Num 1 Summer 2012 2 other. These decentralized organizations operate in such a way that makes it possible to abolish or, at least mitigate, the role of power. We believe that this will ultimately define the future of successful organizations

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