Marx’s innovation thought is rich in meaning and quite impressive. The technology revolution promoted the productivity rapidly in the19th century, the highlights establishment and development of the basic contradictions of the capitalist system, the highlights of Renaissance spirit of human freedom provided the necessary social conditions for the formation of Marx’s innovation thought; the fast development of natural sciences, the German classical philosophy and the thought related to innovation in the classical bourgeois were the ideological foundation of Marx’s innovative thought. Marx’s innovative thought inherent in the works such as "Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy","Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of1844","The Poverty of Philosophy,""Communist Manifesto","Capital Theory" and so on, which experience bud, development, and the systematically presents process.Marx’s innovation thought includes scientific and technological innovation, institutional innovation, theoretical innovation and cultural innovation. He expressed the thought of scientific and technological innovation which possess modern significations with words such as "scientific productivity","new machine", and "technological change". Scientific and technological innovation includes the conversion of scientific principles to new production methods, the promotion of production efficiency by new machines, the promotion of business income by applying new materials, producing new products, expanding new markets, and the systematization of new technology; Marx expressed his enterprise system innovation thought by analyzing the enterprise system changes, credit system, and stock system of capitalism. He expressed his social system innovation thought by reviewing the human social forms changes. The enterprise system innovation is the process that higher productivity system replaces lower productivity, and is the method for the capitalists to expand his exploitation. The social system innovation is the process that the new social system which is more beneficial to all-round development replaces the old social system; Marx expressed his significant theoretical innovation thought in the materialist dialectics and historical materialism theories. The theoretical innovation is the criticizing and inheriting of old theory, and is the new theory that combined the new facts in practice, which is of the features that could direct practicing and subjected to further testing. Marx expressed his significant cultural innovation thought in the cultural production and cultural exchanges theories. Cultural innovation and social development of material production is a dialectical unity, social material production decides the cultural innovation, and the cultural innovation adversely affects social material production, affecting or contributing to its development. The cultural innovation also has ego development features. Marx advocated promoting the traditional culture, absorbing and learning reasonable elements of foreign culture. He put forward keeping the world’s cultural diversity, and promoting human society all-round development by cultural innovation. Marx’s innovation thought are a comprehensive and logic system, the materialist dialectics and historical materialism theories are its philosophical foundation, which has distinct systematic, practical and critical features.Marx’s thought exerted important effect on the theory related to innovation main body, innovation dynamic, and innovation development of Schumpeter and North. Based on inheriting Marx’s innovation theory, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao formatted their Marx’s innovation thought system of China by integrating revolution practice in China, including the foundation of innovation development theory, the impetus of sustainable development theory, the spirit of national development theory and the strategy of scientific development theory, which have distinct successive, contemporary, practical, open and forward-looking features. |