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Left to its own devices, research tends to become more specialized and abstracted from the real-world problems that motivated it and to which it remains relevant.

This suggests that a problem may be tackled effectively not my commissioning more research, but by assuming most or all of the solution can already be found in various scientific journals,... See more

- The creative process is the ability to relate old and new ideas. This means creative thinking is the task of recognizing relationships between concepts.