Models of Creativity

Are there any models on creativity? Not creativity in a utilitarian way, like innovation, but creativity, just a theory of how creativity exists.

• Exploring Creativity and Urban Development with Agent-Based Modelling - https://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/18/2/12.html

Different factors are studied with ABM (transport, land use, residential segregation) and the authors found that there is a trade-off between economic progress and socioeconomic equity. Is Creativity elitist? #FullRead

• creative urban environments
  • mixed land-use and population density
  • affordable urban and regional mobility
  • high levels of societal tolerance.

Notes:

"... the starting point for theory building is establishing relevant stylised facts"

KALDOR, N. (1957). A Model of Economic Growth. The Economic Journal, 67 (268): 591–624. [doi:10.2307/2227704]

• "... provides the intellectual platform underlying the ... approach..."§
• § 2.1 - "... maximize the benefits of agglomeration by reducing the inefficiencies caused by congestion."
• § 2.2 - a notion of 'creativity' conceptualises the relationship between urban morphology and economic productivity ...
• §2.4 "doubling the employment density (jobs per unit area) is associated with 2-6 percent rise in productivity". "high density of interactions is associated with high levels of economic productivity" (potential connection with imperfect information and in-person interactions)
• §2.6 Innovation <- in-person interactions. Tension between Centrifugal (causing sprawl) and centripetal (-> density).
• §2.8 "observe global phenomena through local-level interactions"
• §3.2 "Axtell and Epstein (1994) classify ABMs from "level 0" types that broadly caricature real-world agent behavior to "level 3" where they are in quantitative agreement with both the macro- and "micro-structures" of the target system."
  • AXTELL, R. & Epstein, J., (1994). Agent-based Modelling: Understanding Our Creations. The Bulletin of the Santa Fe Institute, (Winter): 28–32.
• the model https://www.openabm.org/model/4396/version/1/view is available for download and also includes de ODD description
• §4.1 emergence of creative clusters

Like so many other properties of life, measuring creativity needs indicies:

• Creativity and Prosperity: The Global Creativity Index https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/80125 by Richard Florida et al; In this one the index (CGI - Global Creativity Index) is based on 3Ts of economic development (Talent, Technology, and Tolerance [What is the opposite of Tolerance?] .)