Creativity as a new production factor of the world economy

Abstract

The transition to the postindustrial society, which marks the beginning of the humanity’s entry to the information age, which is not based on the mechanical engineering, but on intellectual technology, makes creativity as the main resource of all the scientific and technological processes. Relevance of the article is due to the dynamic changes of the epoch of world socio-cultural development to the new epoch of creativity, where human resource goes out on the qualitatively new level. The aim of the article is to analyze the processes of transformation of production factors and the substantiation of creativity as an imperative for the development of the world economy. The methodological basis of the article is the methods and forms of scientific knowledge adopted in domestic science, such as system approaches, comparative and synthesis methods, methods of abstract logical evaluation, methods of detailing, groupings and generalizations, experts’ evaluations. Analysis of the transformation of the factors of production was revealed; creativity was allocated as the new factor of the production and the necessity of its further development was proved. Results: the changes of the productive factors were revealed, the importance of the development of creativity as the new factor of production was proved, the modern theories of creativity were presented.