the definition i used was;

Intelligent is to be clever.

Being clever, I'd say, is the ability to do that McGyver stuff with the tools before you. Not just tools literally before you, but also tools that can be made with the tools you see. Cleverness is sometimes seeing what other people do not see, or hearing what other people do not hear.

"Place a monkey in a cage and it is like a pig. Not because it isn't clever and quick, but because it has no place to freely excercise its capabilities".

In academia, the group moves at the rate of its slowest learner. Some monkeys may be pig like because they have no place to freely excersice their capabilities.