创新型城市研究的理论演进与反思

The Evolution and Introspection for the Theory of Innovative City

通过对创新型城市研究的理论性追溯及其主要研究内容回顾,梳理出创新型城市研究的发展演进脉络。着重反思了当前创新型城市研究方面存在的薄弱环节,认为其突出表现为创新型城市研究的指标化困境以及对于城市创新外生力量源泉关注的不足,并明确指出,个性化的城市创新路径选择以及有效利用国际创新资源是未来创新型城市研究与实践的主要突破方向。

The traditional economic growth theory considered that the main driving factors of economic growth were material elements such as labor, land, but lacked attention to the innovative elements like talent, technolo- gy and so on. While, In the era of the knowledge-based economy, the research on innovative city is booming and a series of theoretical achievement has been produced. Some conceptual systems, such as ＂National Inno- vation System＂, ＂Regional Innovation System＂ had been put forward since the 1980s and deeply explored into the urban research during the subsequent studies, which brought a series of theoretical achievements related to innovative cities. Based on this, this article makes a literature review which focuses on the research of innova- tive city in recent years. Firstly, the article starts with the innovation theory proposed by Joseph Schumpeter, tracing back the theoretical source. Secondly, it makes a review on the main content of ＂Innovative City＂ in- volving the proposition and connotation, inscape and condition, developing type and pattern and so on, and on this basis, the theoretical evolution process of innovative city has been cleared up. That is the innovative city is an important part of the innovative country, and the city innovation system is a subsystem of the national in- novation system. Therefore, the research on the innovative city is a further inheritance and development of na- tional and regional innovation system theory in the level of city space. Then, the article makes introspection on the weak appoints of the present research on innovative city, in which the research on innovative city has fallen into as well as the lack of concern on the exogenous power source for city innovation. Aiming at the above problems, it can be clearly indicated that the further studies on innovative city cannot be limited to the con- struction of index system and the city rank according to their innovative performance. It should deeply step in- to the inner city based on those studies, and build an innovative system with a distinctive characteristic togeth- er with the most suitable constructional path and scheme by the dynamic analysis of some specific aspects of a city, which can bridge the ＂innovation＂ and ＂city＂, such as the spatial environment, industrial structure, cultur- al connotation, development history and so on. Finally, the article points out the major breakout direction for the research and practice on innovative city in future as follows： the first is the individual road selection to set- ting up an innovative city, the second is that how to use the international innovative resource effectively to help building an innovative city. The above views not only exert a significant impact on the construction of innova- tive cities in developing countries and regions, but also is applicative in developed counties and regions.