DEFINIG EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION

In order to carry out innovation, our accumulated experience is not enough. Humans innovate when they perceive a new necessity and they do so by reviewing and combining existing knowledge in a process of interaction with their surroundings, searching for the best solution. From this perspective we may interpret innovation as
a learning process whose basic resource and main result is knowledge. It is, however, a complex process, which feeds itself both with tacit knowledge and with explicit and specialised knowledge, and which can be affected by a diversity of factors. Some of these are internal and individual (sensitivity, flexibility, motivation, proactivity, ability to analyse, etc.), whereas others are present in the environment (education, personal interactions, and social context).
Education and creativity are manifestations of integral human development, but they are different. Education is a process that aims to go beyond socialisation (to be like others) and to make the educated person a unique individual. It is precisely through this function that education has the possibility of promoting creativity and innovation.