Creativity and innovation are interrelated, and indeed often conflated, concepts. A corollary to this distinction is two different perspectives or types of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs. The purpose of this paper is to explore the distinction between creativity and innovation on the basis of their relationship to history and implications for understandings of entrepreneurship.,This paper is a theoretical exploration of entrepreneurship understood in relation to a proper distinction between creativity and innovation. Creativity and innovation differ from the perspective of their relationship to what has already happened in history vs the radical novelty of a particular discovery or invention.,Creativity can be understood as what human beings do in connection with the fundamental givenness of things. Innovation, on the other hand, can be best understood as a phenomenon related to the historical progress of humankind. Innovation is what human beings discover on the basis of what has already been discovered. Entrepreneurs can be seen as those who discover something radically new and hidden in the latent possibilities of reality and creation. Or entrepreneurs can be seen as those who develop new, and even epochal, discoveries primarily on the basis of the insights and discoveries of those who have come before them in history.,This paper provides a helpful conceptual distinction between creativity and innovation, and finds compatibility in these different perspectives. A holistic and comprehensive understanding of entrepreneurship embraces both its creative and innovative aspects, its metaphysical grounding as well as its historicity.

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创造力，创新和创业的历史

创造力和创新是相互联系的，甚至常常是混杂在一起的概念。这种区别的必然结果是企业家和企业家的两种不同观点或类型。本文的目的是基于与历史的关系以及对企业家精神的理解，探索创造性与创新之间的区别。本文是对企业家精神与创造性与创新之间适当区别相关的理论探索。创造力和创新从它们与历史已经发生的关系的角度来看，与特定发现或发明的新颖性不同。与之不同，创造力可以理解为人类与事物的基本赋予有关的行为。另一方面，创新 可以最好地理解为与人类历史进步有关的现象。创新是人类在已经发现的基础上发现的东西。企业家可以看作是那些发现了一些新事物的人，这些事物隐藏在现实和创造的潜在可能性中。或者说，企业家可以被看作是那些主要根据历史上的先见之明和发现而发展出新的，甚至是时代性的发现的企业家。本文提供了创造性与创新之间的有益概念区分，并发现这些不同角度的兼容性。对企业家精神的整体和全面理解包括其创造性和创新性，形而上学的基础以及其历史性。