WRS 1 - Creativity/Innovative Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. to make an extensive investigation into a subject or idea
  2. 5. the act of seeing, getting knowledge of, learning of, finding, or finding out; gaining sight or knowledge of something previously unseen or unknown
  3. 9. the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, and interpretations
  4. 12. a supportive system of sharing information and services among individuals and groups having a common interest
  5. 14. the act of integrating components within existing ideas to create a new one(s)
  6. 17. any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity. The initial outcome of creativity
  7. 19. behaving as if no other was exactly alike; incomparable
  8. 21. without doing this, it often stops creativity
  9. 22. ideas about revising products to function, appear, or use resources differently to positively impact the value of the product or same costs producing it
  10. 23. the act of absorbing whole ideas into a new idea
  11. 24. in a business: the results from original creative thought from its employees, as patents, copyright material, and trademarks
Down
  1. 1. the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance
  2. 2. remaining persistent and following through in the face of criticism, controversy, or setbacks
  3. 4. undertaking creative tasks on a regular basis so as to exercise one's creative resources
  4. 6. the act of amending, changing, or altering in hopes to improvement
  5. 7. to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse
  6. 8. the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years
  7. 10. ideas about revising how a product is produced to increase efficiency or safety
  8. 11. new, fresh, inventive
  9. 13. time, personnel, and technologies used to sustain business activities
  10. 15. a new method, idea, product, etc.
  11. 16. the combination of details or features of an event, picture or object.; the pattern or motif of artistic work
  12. 18. activity, exercise, or a regimen that develops or improves a skill; training
  13. 20. the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness