技术创新及创新的管理

技术创新及其管理已经发展成为系统科学。创新不仅是个人创造能力的体现，而且是企业的一种核心竞争能力。文章首先探讨技术创新的定义、特征和类型，提出技术创新包括产品、过程、管理和市场4个内容，继而从知识获取和管理等若干方面讨论了企业如何才能成为技术创新的主体。然后对创新的实施、激励机制、评价体系和影响创新成功及失败的因素作了详尽的阐述。

Innovation and Its Management

Innovation is the core competence and development source of a future\|oriented company.The definition,characters and types of innovation are presented at first.There are four types of innovation:product innovation,process innovation,management innovation and market innovation.The innovation capacity of an enterprise does not depend upon the creation of innovators and methodology of innovation only,but,more importantly,is determined by the culture,management and reward systems of innovation in the company.For an enterprise to position itself competitively in the quick changing market environment,it is essential that everyone in the company be involved in modern innovation strategies and practices.Changes initiated to make people more motivated at work also serve to increase the level of innovation.People are the most critical elements in the innovation process and could be trained for creation.The implementation of innovation includes four main phases:the generation and activation of creative idea,preparation to realize it,realization of creative idea and transfering innovation into practice.The success and fail factors of innovation are discussed.At last the innovation management as a new business is introduced.