LICILikhaan Institute of Creatology & Innovation
History

Fifty years in the making.

A research programme and an institutional lineage, from a 1972 pamphlet to the present.

1971
Creatology conceptualised by the Creativeness and Inventiveness Project Team, Philippine Inventors Commission.
1972
First public use; Pamphlet I, Towards a Positive Understanding of Creativity, dedicated to the United Nations.
1975–77
Nationwide study of Filipino inventors with the Development Academy of the Philippines and the PIC–NSDB.
1977
Independently, Dr. István Magyári-Beck introduces a “complex creatology” in Budapest — a parallel, independent origin.
2011
National trainers' courses for the DOST Invent School Program (TAPI) across Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao.
2017
Department of Education seminar-workshop on Creativity and Innovation in Education, Marikina City.
2018–19
Creativity courses introduced for all first-year students at Quezon City University.
2023
Fiftieth anniversary of Likhaan and The InventSchool.