Innovation And Creativity

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The Chief Executive wants to set up the Innovation and Technology Bureau to increase the competitiveness in technology development of Hong Kong. There are some potential barriers that may affect local Chinese businesses to develop creativity technology. First, I have to define the meaning of innovation and creativity. Creativity is a concept of originality on an individual level, somewhat personal. Someone who wants to invent something new and the thing is only a conceptual thing, then the person can express to others (Duda, 2009). That is creativity. An innovation is anything new that is actually used whether major or minor (von Hippel, 2007). Innovation is an idea successful practiced. There are some differences between creativity and innovation. …show more content…

Nevertheless, there are some cultures in Chinese society obstruct people to be creativity. First, Chinese workers are not brave enough to express their opinions. Chinese workers are accustomed to follow the order of the top and the rules. They are worried to be wrong because they will be punished and decrease their incomes. Chinese managers want their workers listen to them and do not have any objections. The managers prefer to talking less and doing more because they think talking will decrease efficiency. In this type of environment, people are difficult to create a new idea. All the thing that people think is to follow the rules and do not have any mistake. Even someone has new thinking, the top may not accept the idea. It is because experiment a new thing will affect the efficiency of the company. Instead, the top will inhabit workers developing new thinking to maintain a stable working environment. If there is not changing, there is nothing can be creative. Confucianism is one of big factor caused this problem. Three bonds …show more content…

When workers have new opinions for their companies, they can write down the opinions and send into the advice box. The advice box do not need workers to write down their name so the top would not know who the writer is. If the opinion is not accept by the top, the worker would not be punish because of the anonymous system. In this case, workers would not lose their Mian Zi while giving new ideas. If the opinion is good and accept by the top, the top can tell to all workers. Although there is no one know who the writer is, the writer still have satisfaction because his advice has been

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