Creativity and innovation in business and beyond: social science perspectives and policy implications

Creativity and Innovation in Business and Beyond illustrates the ways in which creativity spurs innovation - not only in the realms of business and management, where the innovation is regularly acknowledged and discussed, but throughout the social sciences. With contributions from experts in fields as far-flung as policy, history, economics, law, psychology, and education, in addition to business and management, this volume explores the manifold avenues for creativity and innovation within and across a multitude of disciplines.

1. Introduction : creativity and innovation / Janet Chan and Leon Mann -- 2. National innovation systems and creativity / Jonathan West -- 3. Innovation and creativity in industry and the service sectors / Jane Marceau -- 4. Space, place and innovation / Jane Marceau -- 5. Historical approaches to creativity and innovation / Simon Ville -- 6. Economic approaches to understanding and promoting innovation / Joshua Gans -- 7. Creativity and innovation : a legal perspective / Andrew Christie -- 8. Promoting creativity and innovation through law / Brian Fitzgerald -- 9. Towards a sociology of creativity / Janet Chan -- 10. Social psychology of creativity and innovation / Leon Mann -- 11. Creativity and innovation management : play's the thing / Mark Dodgson -- 12. Inducing and disciplining creativity in organisations under escalating complexity / Jonathan West -- 13. Creativity and innovation : an educational perspective / Erica McWilliam -- 14. The psychology of creativity and its educational consequences / John Sweller and Leon Mann -- 15. Creativity meets innovation : examining relationships and pathways / Leon Mann -- 16. Creativity and innovation : principles and policy implications / Leon Mann.