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The term Creatology was first introduced and proposed by Filipino inventor Rafael Nelson M. Aboganda and newspaper editor, Ricardo S. Cortez in October 1972 in a paper entitled "Creatology, The Science of Creativity" published by the Philippine Inventors Commission in Quezon City, Philippines. Creatology was also proposed by a Hungarian scholar Dr. Istvan Magyari-Beck in his presentation "About the Necessity of Complex Creatology" made on the International Sociology of Science Conference in Budapest, in 1977. In 1979, this paper was published in the book Sociology of Science and Research, edited by János Farkas, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, pp.175-182.

Dr.Sayed Mahdi Golestan Hashemi(Founder and Head of Iran Research Center for Creatology and International Center for Science of Creatology ) is developer of Creatology as an interdisciplinary Science of Creativity and Innovation:" GOLESTAN THEORY OF CREATOLOGY"(GTC): Creatology is Scientific Study of various aspects of Creativity, Invention and Innovation by different approaches. Creatology has many sub-disciplines such as:

• Analytical Creatology
• Psychological Creatology
• TRIZ-based (TRIZical) Creatology
• Inventology
• Bionical Creatology

Related centers

• Iran Research Center for Creatology,Innovation & TRIZ [1](Founder and Head : Sayed Mahdi Golestan Hashemi)
• International Center for Science of Creatology (ICSC).

See also

• Creativity
• TRIZ

References

"Creatology, The Science of Creativity" by Nelson M Aboganda and Ricardo S. Cortez, Philippine Inventors Commission, Quezon City, Philippines, October 1972.

"Creatology, a new science in New Society," Philippine Daily Express, Vol. 1, No. 212, December 4, 1972, page 4, Manila, Philippines.

"Something new -- that's what 'creatology' is," The Times Journal, December 5, 1972, page 8, Manila, Philippines.

"Gaining Attention: Creatology -- What is It?" Business Day, April 17, 1974, page 23, Quezon City, Philippines.

External links

• Iran Research Center for Creatology
• Journal of Creatology & TRIZ ( Inventive Problem Solving)
• Creativity Journal, The Likhaan Group, Inc.(www.likhaan.com/blog/2008/11/15/