Long past time this question was asked; as well as:
* What do credentials have to do w/creativity and innovation?
* How did Aristotle, Sophocles Euclid, Julius Caesar, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Mozart among thousands of original minds, manage to thrive w/o degrees?
That’s easy. Until one can speak the language and know the issues, creativity means exactly nada. Today, one does not need innovation at the drill down level of gravity or two dimensional rendering of three dimensional objects. That ship has sailed.
One needs innovation and creativity at a drill down level on topics that one does not even know exist until a few courses in things like condensed matter physics, high energy plasmas, biomolecular kinetics, etc. are under one’s belt.