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Robin de Maleprade's avatar

The aversion to creativity can also be found in scientific research where fundamental research is shunned by the private sector as opposed to applied research since the former might not yield any profit in the short term while the latter is much more likely to do so. Thus, fundamental research advances depend far more on public funding than applied research does. At the same time, the Nobel Prize in scientific fields is awarded to advances in fundamental research which further our global understanding of the world and can lead to scientific revolutions, thus rewarding creativity.

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Pip McIntyre's avatar

Business leaders also hate creativity - they don't want creative approaches but just to take the exisiting techniques and carry them out in more effieintly/in another market/cheaper/quicker and thus make the profit numbers better. For all the waffle about "creative solutions" they spout, business people are samll-c conservatives at heart just like the majority of us.

.....rushing to hide my paints and easel before the boss comes back...

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