Subsequently, there is a paucity of new and useful products. However, once Pakistan takes to an inventive and a creative way of thinking, the country's products will have a much greater chance to enter international market. Pakistan's industrial sectors need institutions for designers for design support for new products with quality to guide and assist the industrial sector. This support should start first for the small industrial sector and for those industries that have expert market in hand. This paper is reproduced form author s report on Creativity and Progress in 1985.
Creativity is an exasperating proposition, difficult to come to grips with.
We get impatient while reading abstract philosophical treatises on the nature of the sudden flash on inspiration that seems to be creative pay-off. Some writers tell us that creative people are non-conformists, but it s hard to believe that whiskers and sandals mark the good designer. It is difficult, too, not to be a little skeptical of some of the schemes that have been proposed foe measuring creativity-to accept, for example, that a fellow who can remember five ways of converting linear to rotary motions is more creative than one who can recall only three, or that a creative person is necessarily one who is adept at getting quick answers to algebraic puzzles. Engineers are presumable specialists in reducing the theoretical to the practical, and notable for having guts enough to tackle any difficulty that comes along. We can begin by making a simplifying assumption.