Theory Of And Practice In The Regional Innovation Environment

The development of regional economy is increasingly inconfrontation with intellectualization and globalization. And creativityis the most salient feature dominating the era of knowledge economy,which makes it necessary for the development of regional economy toimpose urgent requirements upon creative milieus. Thereforeundoubtedly research on creative milieus undoubtedly is of greatsignificance both in theory and in practice. The dissertation, from theperspectives of theory and practice, seek to expound the concept,characteristics, structure, and functions of creative milieus as well asthe development patterns involved in developing or improving creativemilieus. By taking the creative milieus in ChongQing City as anexample, the dissertation proffers an evaluation of the status quo anddemerits in the creative milieus of ChongQing. By drawing on theongoing construction of the information system for creative milieus, thedissertation puts forward countermeasures and suggestions as to how toimprove the creative milieus in ChongQing City.The dissertation consists of four parts.Part One, Introduction, on the basis of the reality of and prospectsfor the development of regional economy and through a look at theongoing and future development of regional economy in China, analysesthe necessity and the current situations of research in this field.Part Two, A Preliminary Exploration Into the Theory of RegionalCreative Milieus, initially defines provinces and prefectures as the3focus of regional creative milieus research and explains the meaning ofcreativity. Then this part points out that creative milieus are anindispensable physical, cultural, and social environment for a region tomaintain its sustainable competitiveness and development. Creativemilieu is a relatively stable network system which is formed through theinterplay between subjects and participants within a certain region inorder to maintain, produce, and reinforce regional creativity.Furthermore according to the logical conditions, the dissertation dividescreative milieu into four interdependent and closely-related level net-works, namely, the infrastructure net-work, the cultural net-work, theorganizational net-work, and the information net-work. In the finalanalysis, the dissertation analyses the characteristics and structure ofregional creative milieus. On the basis of this analysis, the dissertationputs forward "hard approach" and "soft approach" as the means todevelop and improve regional creative milieus.Part Three discusses the evaluation of regional creative milieus.Regional creative milieu is an intricate and complicated system.Therefore, only with the establishment of a series of regional creativemilieu index system can we manipulate advanced methods andapproaches to bring out comparisons between different regions orsynchronic and diachronic comparisons within a certain region. Only inthis way can theories effectively perform their guiding role in practice.Therefore this part, with the utilization of the comprehensive evaluationindex and on the basis of the inherent relations between differentconstituents in regional creative milieus, builds up an index system forevaluating new regional creative milieus and puts forward evaluationapproaches.Part Four, as a part devoted to putting into practice the preliminarytheories discussed above, analyses the current situations and evaluationof the regional creative milieus in ChongQing. This part initially from aquantitative perspective p.resents a brief discussion of the needs for -creativity in ChongQing and the problems and demerits in thedevelopment and construction of regional creative milieus in terms of4the four net-works. Then this part, through a look at the index systemfor comprehensively evalu...