On the growing trend of local inventions, SMU Associate Professor of English Literature Kirpal Singh noted that products of creativity were often thought of as artistic or cultural works, but we should remember that scientific inventions also come from the creative realm. He added that “inventions require inventors to look at the world in new ways”, and that “inventions [were] about bettering people’s lives”. Associate Prof Singh has been re-elected as the Vice-President of the American Creativity Association in Philadelphia.