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From Creativity To Innovation / Yusuf, Shahid
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Yusuf, Shahid
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems.
- Agriculture.
- Capabilities.
- Domain.
- E-Business.
- Education.
- Global markets.
- Human capital.
- ICT Policy and Strategies.
- Information and Communication Technologies.
- Innovation.
- Innovations.
- Knowledge for Development.
- Networks.
- Private Sector Development.
- Product innovation.
- Productivity.
- Rural Development.
- Tertiary Education.
- Uses.
- Local Subjects:
- Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems.
- Agriculture.
- Capabilities.
- Domain.
- E-Business.
- Education.
- Global markets.
- Human capital.
- ICT Policy and Strategies.
- Information and Communication Technologies.
- Innovation.
- Innovations.
- Knowledge for Development.
- Networks.
- Private Sector Development.
- Product innovation.
- Productivity.
- Rural Development.
- Tertiary Education.
- Uses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (20 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2007
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Talent is the bedrock of a creative society. Augmenting talent involves mobilizing culture and tradition, building institutions to increase the stock of human capital, enhance its quality, and instill values favoring achievements and initiative. The productivity of this talent in the form of ideas can be raised by nurturing wikicapital-the capital arising from networks. Translating creativity into innovation is a function of multiple incentives and sustaining innovation is inseparable from heavy investment in research. Finally, the transition from innovation to commercially viable products requires the midwifery of many service providers and the entrepreneurship skills of firms small and large.
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