This paper is about creativity and innovation in the educational field. Through a literature review, we de scribe the results of two decades of research on creativity and innovation in the educational and organiza tional field, to underline what seemed to work and what did not, to enable these processes functioning ef fectively. In this literature review, a search of publications dealing with the issues of innovation and crea tivity and the links between these two issues has been made. We decided to put these studies in four theo retical, ex - post created, dimensions: organizational structures, individual characteristics, training methods and pedagogical practices and training content. The content of this article is based on one of the outputs of the European Commission funded project, named CLEAR (Creativity and innovation: pedagogical framework for the learning chain).
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