Why today's tech jobs need creative minds

Editor's note: This month, Elsevier Connect is exploring "the creative face of science and medicine." In learning how to play chess, we learn how the pieces move and the relative value of knights and rooks and pawns. But as we master the game, the creative elements emerge. We discover that we can choose an opening that will lead to a slow, cautious game with the strategic maneuvering of pieces – or a wide open board where pieces are exchanged in rapid succession and the position changes constantly. We realize that recognizing patterns is as important as cold calculation.