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Assata is a citizen of The Bahamas who is living in Jamaica and pursuing her studies at the University of
the West Indies, Mona. As a non-Jamaican, she has found that there are additional expenses and costs that
she has incurred which were neither anticipated nor planned for. She has thus found herself in a situation
where she needs to find a sustained source of income. Given here artistic talent, she is considered to be
very creative and innovative. She is deemed to be a good choreographer and visual artist and has many DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
admirers. However, Assata has come to realize that being innovative and creative in the artistic sense is
different from being innovative and creative in the business sense. She has come to this conclusion partly
because she is finding it difficult to come up with a way to make some money using her raw talent. Her
hope is to come up with a novel idea regarding a good or service, which she would develop, implement
and protect, with the hope of expanding her venture to The Bahamas and the rest of the Caribbean.

6. (a) Explain THREE methods of protecting innovation and creativity.

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