TY - BOOK ID - 133358573 TI - From Creativity To Innovation PY - 2007 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems KW - Agriculture KW - Capabilities KW - Domain KW - E-Business KW - Education KW - Global markets KW - Human capital KW - ICT Policy and Strategies KW - Information and Communication Technologies KW - Innovation KW - Innovations KW - Knowledge for Development KW - Networks KW - Private Sector Development KW - Product innovation KW - Productivity KW - Rural Development KW - Tertiary Education KW - Uses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133358573 AB - 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. ER -