创新应驱动何种发展?

What kind of development should innovation drive?

传统创新研究所关注的发展问题主要是经济增长,较少考虑技术进步的社会影响。而对于发展问题的研究已经出现了一个更广泛的理解,不仅包括经济增长,也包括社会发展,因此创新驱动发展存在着一个错位。文章通过分析创新与发展的研究脉络及相互作用关系,认为创新与社会发展存在着很多共通之处,创新与社会发展的连接是两者共同的内在要求。创新不仅要驱动经济增长,更应驱动包含了消除贫困、保护环境、改善教育医疗及促进社会公平等在内的社会发展。这一理念也将对创新战略与政策的决策过程产生重要影响。

Innovation researchers are still considering development as mere economic growth without much focus on the social impacts of technological change. This tradition has emerged from a broader understanding of development that includes not only economic but also social and political dimensions. There has been a dislocation within innovation- driven development. After analyzing the studies on innovation and development and their interaction relationship,this article recognizes that they have much in common,the connection of innovation and development is the requirement of both. Innovation should drive social development which includes economic growth,elimination of poverty,protection of environment,improvement of education and healthcare,social equity and so on. This assumption has some important implications for the innovation and development of policy- making process.