Is Creativity Inherited?
We don’t know. Certainly highly creative families often have highly creative offspring. However it’s difficult to tell whether this is due to genetic factors or to being brought up in an environment that encourages and values creative thought. The answer is probably that nature provides a predisposition towards higher or lower creativity but that nurture is a vitally important deciding factor. • What Are “Left” and “Right” Brains? The two halves of the human brain work together. Both are important, however the right brain is often said to be the more creative. For more information see brains. • Can Businesses Be Creative? This is something of a philosophical question. Do you consider a company as existing in its own right, or simply to be a collection of people and products? Most people would agree that companies can act creatively. There is less agreement as whether “the company” is creative or whether the company is simply providing the conditions for groups of individuals to express
