Sociological concept
Innovation refers to the activities that people use the known information and conditions to break through the convention and find or produce some novel, unique and valuable new things and concepts for the needs of development.
Economic concept
Innovation refers to the behavior of improving or creating new things (including but not limited to various methods, elements, paths, environments, etc.). ) combined with the existing knowledge and materials in a specific environment, and achieved certain beneficial results.
Innovation is to produce or adopt, absorb and develop a new value-added product in the economic and social fields; Update and expand products, services and markets; Develop new production methods; Establish a new management system. It is both a process and a result.
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Innovative areas:
science and technology
Scientific and technological innovation is the source of social productivity development. Scientific and technological innovation refers to the innovation in the field of science and technology, covering the new discovery of natural science knowledge and the innovation of technology and craft. In modern society, universities, scientific engineering research institutions and other research institutions are the basic subjects of basic scientific and technological innovation, and enterprises are the basic subjects of applied engineering technology and technological innovation.
enterprise
Enterprise innovation is the basic component of modern economic innovation. Enterprises are often composed of production, procurement, marketing, service, technology research and development, finance, human resource management and other functional departments, so enterprise innovation covers these functional departments, including product innovation, production process innovation, marketing innovation, enterprise culture innovation and enterprise management innovation.
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