Introduction

Senior High School (SHS) refers to grade 11 and 12, the last two years of K-12 program that the
Department of Education has been implementing since 2012. Senior high school students begin to study
the subjects that will introduce them to their preferred career path (Grig Montegrande, 2016).
Innovativeness and creativeness plays a big role of being a student. Being creative means having the
ability to create new things or think of new ideas. While being innovative means having the ability to
create and invent new things and actually make them happen.

Innovation is the process of making changes, large and small, radical and incremental, to products,
processes, and services that result in the introduction of something new for the organization that adds
value to customers and contributes to the knowledge store of the organization (O’Sullivan & Dooley,
2009).

Blank claims that most of the technology innovations were built by people in their 20’s with a few of
innovators in their 30’s. His main argument is: One of the traps of age is growing to accept the common
wisdom of what’s possible and not. Accumulated experience can at times become an obstacle in
thinking creatively. Knowing that “it can’t be done” because you can recount each of the failed attempts
in the last 20 years to solve the problem can be a boat anchor on insight and imagination. This not only
effects individuals, but happens to companies as they age. (Steve Blank, 2010)

In general, studies on innovation are conducted on industries and activities that have been for a long
time exclusively male-controlled industries. Women have become more involved in the labor force and
many sectors have been led by women, a development which suddenly changed the innovation
landscape and created new ways of innovation (World Bank, 2014)

Creativity is an important evolutionary adaptation that allows humans to think original thoughts, to find
solutions to problems that have never been encountered before and to fundamentally change the way
we live (e.g. Goldberg 2018; Kaufman 2016; Sternberg 1999; Turner 2014)

At present, no large-scale empirical studies exist that allow for fully supported conclusions on the
relationship between age and creativity across the entire human life cycle. A further limitation on the
ability to generalize about the relationship between age and creativity is the degree to which culture can
influence an individual’s creativity (Kim et al., 2011).