LICILikhaan Institute of Creatology & Innovation
Research

The research programme.

A science is identified as much by its methodology as by its object — and distinguished from a body of practice by the falsifiability of its claims.

Methodology

Creatology generates knowledge through controlled experimentation, longitudinal study, instrument design and validation, ethnographic and case-based investigation, computational modelling, and intervention research. The science is held together by integrative standards: claims at different levels are expected to cohere, and findings by different methods to triangulate.

The founder's documented dialectical method — salunggalian, resolving contradiction and conflict through synthesis — and the systems approach are central to this tradition, alongside the empirical core of the mid-1970s nationwide study of Filipino inventors.

Falsifiable claims

  • Distinct operations. The creative-thinking operations are distinguishable rather than a single undifferentiated capacity — testable by factor-analytic study.
  • Trainability. Performance can be improved through specific interventions, reflected in both assessment and independent output.
  • Organisational modulation. Specific conditions reliably enable or suppress creative emergence in teams.
  • Population response. Creative capacity responds to systemic intervention — the most ambitious claim, with the earliest-stage evidence base.

Measurement: an early-stage priority

The development of validated measures is foundational but still in progress. Building a validated instrument portfolio is a defining task of the Institute's research programme rather than a finished achievement; reported figures should accompany published validation studies.