Editorial: Creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship: The learning science toward higher order abilities
Zehui Zhan, Patrick S.W. Fong, Kuen‐Yi Lin, Baichang Zhong, Harrison Hao Yang
Abstract
Creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship are emphasized as the major power in driving the development of our fast-changing world. Especially in the era of Industry 4.0, where intelligent manufacturing plays an important role, creative and entrepreneurial talents have gained more attention than ever before. Cultivating and educating those talents has become a key issue that needs to be solved. However, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship, as higher-order abilities of talents, are not achieved overnight, because they may be affected by a variety of complex factors, including innate and acquired. Available knowledge about the teaching and learning of students' higher order abilities is still insufficient and the challenges of linking theories and practices claim more research efforts into mature pedagogies, effective teaching aids, and accurate evaluation tools. Hence, the present Research Topic on “Creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship: The learning science toward higher order abilities” contributes with updates and different perspectives on innovation-oriented education, representing the effort of 29 academic papers from 91 authors in total. The following section will elaborate contributions of these papers to the Research Topic.