Today we are introducing the Likhaan Institute of Creatology and Innovation — LICI: the research and education engine of the firm, and the place where Creatology is advanced and taught.

A consultancy lives or dies on the quality of its thinking, and most firms keep that thinking private. We decided ours needed a dedicated place to generate it, test it, and pass it on — not a marketing function dressed up as a journal, but a genuine research and education arm. That is the Institute.

Likhaan advises, and Likhaan builds. LICI is the third thing: where the ideas behind the advice are researched, sharpened, and taught — so that the method does not merely get used, but keeps getting better.

What the Institute does

Its first charge is research: advancing Creatology — the science that treats creativity and innovation as a single, continuous phenomenon — together with the frameworks the firm works from, the 3Ps@E model and the IIISI method. This is ongoing work, held to the standards of a discipline rather than the convenience of a brochure.

Its second charge is education: the Institute teaches what it studies. The CITTI course books — Basic and Advanced, with their supplemental readings — are available now, and through LICI Press we publish the texts of the field, including the founding work, Pamphlet I, which we keep free to read.

Creatology is not a tagline here. It is a research programme — and the Institute is where it lives.

Built on a founding idea

Creatology did not begin yesterday. It was first set out in 1972 by Rafael Nelson M. Aboganda, with the late Ricardo S. Cortez as co-originator. The Institute exists to carry that work forward — Aboganda serves as its Founder and Chief Research Officer — and to give the science a permanent home in which to grow, be challenged, and be taught to the next people who will use it.

You can read more about the Institute, explore the course books, or visit the LICI site directly. If your organisation works at the edge of creativity and innovation — in research, in education, or in practice — we would like to hear from you.

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