This document discusses creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. It defines each concept and explains their importance both individually and how they work together to drive societal progress. Creativity involves novel ideas, innovation combines creative ideas into new products and services, and entrepreneurship brings innovations to market. Together, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship have built modern society through continuous development. The document encourages individuals to foster their creativity and look for ways to solve unmet needs through entrepreneurship.
2. What is Creativity?
• The act of doing what has never been done
• Children are inherently creative
• Creativity is beaten out of us
• Education, failure, enjoyment
• There is no can’t, only can.
3. What is Innovation?
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a
follower.” – Steve Jobs
• Bringing creative processes together
• Gas engine and the carriage
• The Wright brothers
• Henry Ford (Multiple Failures)
4. What is an Entrepreneur?
• Always seeks opportunities
• Finds new ways to fulfill needs
• Shoots to always make a profit
• Changes the way things are done
• Risks assets for possible gains
5. "Twenty years from now, you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didn't
do than by the ones you did do, so throw
off the bowlines, sail away from safe
harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore, Dream, Discover.“
-Mark Twain
6. Why are creativity, innovation, and
entrepreneurship important?
• They’ve built society as we know it.
• The future itself is in the hands of the
dreamers who are willing to work and
fight for their dreams.
7. How do they work together?
• Creative processes lead to new power
supplies and new engineering designs
• Innovators bring these new power
supplies and engineering ideas together
• Entrepreneurs find unfulfilled needs for
the products, bring them to market,
change the world, and make money
8. What qualities make a good
entrepreneur?
• Self motivation
• Stone skin
• Excellent people
skills
• Vast networks
• Determination
• Ability to push
through failures
without getting
down.
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful
entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
–Steve Jobs
9. Creativity, Innovation, and
Entrepreneurship in Organizations
Large Organizations
• Have a very hard time
being creative,
innovative, and
entrepreneurial
• Bureaucracy and
creativity, innovation,
and entrepreneurship
Small Organizations
• If setup properly are very
good at promoting creativity,
innovation, and
entrepreneurial pursuit
• Lack of bureaucracy and
regulations within the
organization allow
employees to be creative,
innovative, and
entrepreneurial
10. Creativity, Innovation, and
Entrepreneurship for Individuals
How can you do it?
• Spend time being creative (like a child)
• Don’t be afraid to put things together and see
what happens.
• Always be looking for unfulfilled needs
• Keep up with your networks (they are full of
good ideas)
•Resilience
11. Why would ethics be important to creativity,
innovation, and entrepreneurship?
Can you think of any unethical things done in the
name of societal or technological development?
Hint: Think about the external cost
12. How has the present been changed by
these things?
• Easier to ask what has not been changed
• We’ve created foods, technologies,
societies…
• Pretty much everything you enjoy once
came from a creative, innovative, and/or
entrepreneurial venture of some kind
13. What does the future hold?
• The question is: What can you dream
and make happen?
• Remember: There is NO CAN’T, only
CAN!
14. “If you wish to make an apple pie
from scratch, you must first invent
the universe.”
-Carl Sagan
This is your planet, go invent the future!
