Research On Humanities And Social Dimensions Of Innovation-Oriented Country Construction Of Our Country

To build an innovative country includes two systems, one is the "hardware" system based on the core of technological innovation, and the other is the "software" system of technology innovation and service which is based on the main contents of innovative concept, innovative culture, innovative system and innovative human resources. The two systems interact with each other. The first system embodies and involves part of the contents in the second system; yet the elements in the second system point to the first system. This article, focusing on the second system, studies the innovative nation-building in humanity and social dimensions.Innovation, innovation-oriented country and the humanity and social dimensions are the theoretical basis of this article. In ancient China, there were some record on "innovation" very early. But the meaning of innovation, used only in the sense of a single word, was rather limited at that time. In the western world, Schumpeter initiated the tendency in understanding of innovative economy, and constructed the innovation theory. Although the word "innovation" was not explicitly useed, the innovative ideas shine brilliantly in the works of Marx. With the social development, innovative concepts have been constantly expanded, rising from the special meanings in economy field to general meanings philosophical field. Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zeminand Hu Jintao have enriched the connotation of innovation in their works. American scholar Michael Porter is the first person to initiate the concept of an innovative country. An innovative country has both the dominant and indistinct featuresand the division criteria of innovative countries are both relatively fixed and dynamic.. Humanities and social dimensions include innovative concept, innovative culture, innovative system, and innovative human resources, etc.Building an innovation-oriented country in China is both advantaged and restricted by the humanities and social factors. The awakening sense of innovation, outstanding traditional cultural accumulation, relatively complete system and large-scale scientific and technical personnel laid the humanities and social basis to build an innovative country. Limited independent innovation capability in enterprises, poor innovation in the society, insufficient science and technologydevotion and relatively weak studies on infrastructures show the core competitive gap to build an innovative country. There is still a long way to go to build an innovative country, because the innovative concept is to be set, the innovative culture is to be formed, the innovative system is to be developed and the innovative human resoures are to be increased.The cultural, systemic and human resources experience in Japan, US and Finland may inspire or be references to China when building an innovative country. The national self-confidence training with the core of national pride, the cultural accumulation with collectivism and imitation, the stimulation of innovation with the characteristic of a sense of crisis in Japan are valuable experience in building an innovative country. legal protection of intellectual property rights, government procurement, arrangement and innovation on risk and investment systemin the United States are important experience in building an innovative country; developed education and training system and the emphasis on the development of higher technical education in practice are Finland's way to build an innovative country.Innovative concept comes first in innovative country building. Innovative concept is the basis quality for innovative human resources and the spirit of innovative country building. Power capacity based on the concept of the Idea of the rejection, "do not stick the neck out" confirming Doctrine of the Mean in the Chinese traditional culture, and the Government's over-protection and the pre-formed market entry barriers obstruct the innovative concept in China. To advocate ability-based concept, to respect individuality, to encourage innovative practices, to tolerate negative results, to discard conservative thoughts and to cultivate entrepreneurship, etc. constitute our innovative ideas of nation-building and lead the road to innovative practices.Innovative culture is the foundation of building an innovative country in China. Innovative culture has three kinds of qualities of being skeptical, critical and different, and reflects a dynamic logical evolution. "Respect thrift, focusing on savings" constrains the expansion on their innovative product market."Preferred brand, trust foreign brands" decreases the domestic innovation motivity. "Obedience, not critical," and less demanding market demand for products impede innovation. All of these show the inherent conflicts between the rational value and innovative spirit in Chinese culture. The construction innovative culture in China now may be conducted in five ways:to change the excessive savings habits and advocate moderate consuming in advance; to enhance the crisis awareness and increase national self-confidence;to demand cultivation on market demands and force the continuous innovation in enterprises; to publicize scientific methods of communication and enhance the awareness of national innovation; and to inherit skepticism and criticism and to innovate the spirit of education, corporate culture.Innovative system is the innovative force of national construction and protection. "Needham Question" can be understood in the feudal autocratic system. The rule of man's deconstruction of the traditional rejected the democratic system innovation. The national and individual binary opposition of authoritarian social structure lead to inertia block on technological innovation. The primary factor of production determines economic control over the evolution of change, and technology becoming the primary factors of production requires the transformation of government functions and related institutional arrangements. And the systems suitable for technology as the primary factors of production includes technology evaluation system and technology management system, the venture investment system, the government procurement system, the legal protection of intellectual property system for innovation and the development of cooperative mechanism of enterprise-oriented industry, academy and research.Creative talents, actually innovative human resources, are the individual subjective elements in innovation-country building. The main subject has the ability of individual innovation, freedom and consciousness, values and other characteristics. Traditional education mode constrain creative talents. Enterprises are lack of talents with rational consciousness and conscious creativity. Generous treatment from foreign countries and unreasonable domestic evaluation mechanism for research and innovation lead to brain drain in China. That shows that there is a huge gap between China's creative talents and innovative nation-building. Construction of China's creative talents contains five problems:how to break the traditional education model constraints and foster creative talents to guide the rational practice consciously or unconsciously to flow in the businesses; how to guide individual value orientation by social value orientation; how to increase the return rate of professionals studying abroad and introduce innovative talents, how to mobilize all the people's sense of innovation, creativity and enthusiasm of innovations.The reunification of technology rationality and value rationality is the important goal of China's innovative construction. Technology rationality is inherently associated with the "sick society" and "One Dimensional Man" in wester world. The strong ideological bias and technology control caused by technological development of modern industrial society has a great attraction in developing countries like China. Because of the important role of technological innovation, innovative technology easily lead to a rational nation-building or technical rule. To avoid this tendency, we must maintain the technology and human spirit of the building tension between the rational, science and technology and decrease the human aspirations and ideological orientation.Humanities and social dimensions have significant value on supporting the innovative construction, making China an innovative country and realizing harmonious goals, highlighting an innovative country with Chinese characteristics. The value of humanities and social dimensions consists the internal demand of building an innovation-oriented country in China.