World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21

Today starts 2011’s World Creativity and Innovation Week. The week always starts on Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday, which is April 15. From the WCIW website, “How it All Started” In May 2001 Canadian creativity specialist Marci Segal noticed a banner headline in one of Canada’s national newspapers, “Canada in Creativity Crisis” it read. “No it isn’t”, she thought, shaken to the core, “there’s plenty of creativity. It’s just that people don’t know it when they see it or, they swat at it when it shows up differently from what they expect.” The article described a creativity conference held in…