By Dean Keith Simonton, PhD -- So creativity overlaps with intelligence when you are talking about little c creativity. But when you are talking about "big C creativity," you're talking about being able to generate new ideas, generate some kind of product that's going to have some kind of impression on other people... a concrete, discrete product that is original and serves some kind of adaptive function. And that kind of creativity, that big c creativity, involves a whole bunch of other characteristics besides intelligence.