ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an extensive historical perspective of creativity and innovation, and knowledge about creativity, creative thinking, and creativity components in individuals. It discusses innovation, types of innovation, forms of innovation, benefits and risks of innovation, and innovation diffusion to the market. The chapter shows the difference between linear and interactive models of innovation and examines the relationship between invention and innovation. It introduces disruptive innovation technologies and also provides a brief description of the several related technologies. The chapter also shows the value of seeing opportunities for employing engineering habits of the mind as thinking tools in every day that aid in stimulating creativity and innovation in individuals. It also discusses green innovation and its topology and characteristics. The chapter explores integrated innovation as coordinated application of scientific, technological, social, and business innovation to develop solutions to complex problems. It describes strategies to enhance creativity in engineering education.
