| Currently, the automobile industry has increasing been a major pillar in the main production countries' economies, and play ed an important role in the development of society and world economy.Nevertheless, the competitiveness of China's automobile industry has great gap to that of the main countries because of the technical lag. Therefore how to augment the technical innovation ability of our country, to shorten the technical gap with developed countries, and to further the development of our automobile industry, is the major concern in this dissertation.Under the circumstances of automobile industry globalization and fierce competition, how to take advantage of "hind start" to strengthen our automobile industry and make proper policies on technical innovation are the main focuses in the article. Based on the theories of international economics, industry economics and system theory, this article has deeply analyzed the different innovation behaviors and industry policies of the main automobile countries, which will shine significant light on China's technical innovation and decision-making.There are seven chapters in this dissertation, they are arranged as follows:Chapter one is the instruction, telling something about the background, study method and purpose, new findings and framework of this dissertation.Chapter two is the theory synthesis of technical innovation which mainly focuses on the development of technical innovation theory, the relations between industry policy and technical innovation, and innovation theories of automobile technical innovation. These theories are the theoretical-analyzing framework of this paper, but none of them is based on China's characteristics, new circumstances call for new theory to solve our problem.Chapter three pays attention to the American automobile technical innovation and industry policies. First of all, I trace the development history of American automobile, and find that the oligarchic competition, the economy of scale and intensive production are the destined trend of modern automobile industry evolution, which are also the main drives of automobile technical innovation. Secondly, I analyze the innovation behavior of American automobile companies, and find that a large sum of money, many study institutions and efficient governmental sponsoring system have contributed to the American companies' leading place in technical innovation. This innovation model is recognized as the "market model", independent companies are the main bodies of innovation while government creating facilities. At last, I analyze the government industry policies in sponsoring technical innovation, which indicates U.S government has also played an important role in the automobile industry development although she did not make any special sponsoring policy in the preliminary stage.In chapter four, I turn to Japanese automobile technical innovation. After tracing the development history of Japanese automobile, I find industry policy has played a significant role in Japanese automobile industry's catching-up. The innovation behavior of Japanese companies has showed that market system and heavy governmental intervention are of equivalent importance, which is recognized as the "mixed model". In this innovation regime, companies are also the main bodies of technical innovation, technology-absorbing and mimic R&D are their major innovation paths. Compared with the "market model", government steps more deeply in innovation process mainly through sponsoring system and industry policy.Chapter five studies the technical innovation in EU. Germany highlights the trademark effect and R&D effect while France pays more attention to automobile's external utilities which contribute to its industry-declining. The technical innovation behavior of EU has showed that numbers of technical-studying personnel and market-based R&D system are maintaining their technical competition.Chapter six mainly focuses on China's technical innovation of automobile industry. Key technical problem, the economy of scale problem and profit problem are still obtrusive, although China's automobile industry has made great progress after the "open ness and reform". Nevertheless, our innovation ability is also quite low characterized by no good trademark, patent-lag and no complete self-R&D system, resulting from sparse inputs and few technicians and low-qualified experimental equipments, and governmental poor industry policies have aggravated this condition.Chapter seven tries to find the significance of American , Japanese and EU technical innovation to China's automobile industry. The policy suggestions are: perfectly-sponsored funds system, the government's role in policy-making and fund-managing, the market-based R&D mechanism, etc.
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