Craftsmen like to constantly carve their own products, constantly improve their craft and enjoy the process of sublimation of products in their hands. Craftsmen have high requirements for details, pursue perfection and perfection, and have persistent persistence and pursuit of fine products. They improved the quality from 0 to 1, which benefited the world for a long time, although the income was small.
Cultivate craftsman spirit:
Education is fundamental.
Under the guidance of exam-oriented education for many years, people pay attention to theory, neglect practice and despise engineering. Ken Robinson, a British educator, pointed out in his new book "Let Thinking Be Free" that reforming education is the most solid step to cultivate creativity and "ingenuity" is the most essential portrayal of innovators. Therefore, vocational and technical education should have a higher social status in the country, engineering education should have a greater weight in higher education, and practical education should run through our primary and secondary education.
2. Strengthen the reward mechanism for craftsmen.
Brandenburg is a German craftsman, who works at the Hof Institute in Flawn, Germany. He originally studied the technology of "transmitting high-fidelity music", but he was more interested in the technology of "removing how many sound signals without distorting the ears" and achieved success. It is worth noting that there is a powerful reward mechanism behind his success, that is, the German government requires employers to share part of the patent benefits with inventors. Such a policy made Brandenburg's patent fee far exceed his salary at the Hof Institute in Flawn.
3. Establish an organization that allows craftsmen to focus on technology.
Kochi, founded by nathan myhrvold, former chief technology officer of Microsoft, is the first company in the world to "fund new inventions". Protect the interests of inventors from large enterprises and create a suitable working environment for craftsmen. Accordingly, with the help of 100 senior inventors, Kochi now has the seventh largest patent portfolio in the world.
4. Create a cultural environment of tolerance and failure, and establish a compensation mechanism for innovation failure.
Technology, invention and innovation are high-risk activities. Therefore, we should break the old concept of "only success, no failure" in scientific and technological innovation, and vigorously create a cultural environment and atmosphere that tolerates failure and encourages innovation. Innovation and entrepreneurship should not be exaggerated, return to the "artisan spirit", and use practical and reliable technologies and inventions to solve the problems faced by mankind, the dilemma of China's economic development and the bottleneck of industrial technological progress. This is the internal core and fundamental guarantee for innovation-driven development.