CECreative Education2151-4755Scientific Research Publishing10.4236/ce.2014.53023CE-42953ArticlesSocial Sciences&Humanities Creativity & Innovation: Four Key Issues from a Literature Review rancescoPisanu1*PaolaMenapace2*Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, GermanyProvincial Institute of Educational Research and Experimentation (IPRASE), Trentino, Italy* E-mail:francesco.pisanu@iprase.tn.it(RP);paola.menapace@uni-bielefeld.de(PM);150220140503145154January 7th, 2014February 7th, 2014 February 14th, 2014© Copyright 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. 2014This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This paper is about creativity and innovation in the educational field. Through a literature review, we describe the results of two decades of research on creativity and innovation in the educational and organizational field, to underline what seemed to work and what did not, to enable these processes functioning effectively. In this literature review, a search of publications dealing with the issues of innovation and creativity and the links between these two issues has been made. We decided to put these studies in four theoretical, ex-post created, dimensions: organizational structures, individual characteristics, training methods and pedagogical practices and training content. The content of this article is based on one of the outputs of the European Commission funded project, named CLEAR (Creativity and innovation: pedagogical framework for the learning chain).

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