ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1, scientific creativity was defined as the intentional production of original ideas, that is, ideas that are novel and meaningful to other scientists. But, no idea stands by itself, so simply producing ideas is insufficient. An original idea has to make a contribution to scientists’ understanding, and, to do that, it has to be embedded in a system of other ideas familiar to those scientists. So, it is more useful to extend the definition of scientific creativity to be the production of original contributions.
