Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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Novelty

1. state or quality of being novel, new, or unique; newness: the novelty of a new job.
2. a novel occurrence, experience, or proceeding: His sarcastic witticisms had ceased being an entertaining novelty.
3. an article of trade whose value is chiefly decorative, comic, or the like and whose appeal is often transitory: a store catering to tourists who loaded up with souvenir pennants and other novelties.

Creativity
1. The state or quality of being creative.
2. The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationship, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc. ; originality, progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity in modern industry; creativity in the performing arts.
3. The process by which one utilizes creative ability : Extensive reading stimulated his creativity.

Innovation
1. something new or different introduced: numerous innovations in the high-school curriculum.
2. the act of innovating; introduction of new things or methods.

Source:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/innovation
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Novelty
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/creativity

Here's another hard time Lecturer gaves us.
After some understanding, 3 of these also almost the same, is towards a new thing.
then what is the different?

Novelty, it's about creating something fresh in people's eyes and new.
Creativity, it's about producing something creative out of something old.
Innovation, it's about building up or create something never exist, like Edison creating the lamp.

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