Research On The Interaction Between Institutional Innovation And Cultural Innovation

Institutions refer to mandatory norms and official rules, which is to regulate people's activities and relations of association in a certain historic condition, whose implementation depends on a compulsory restriction. Culture, in a narrow sense, refer to spiritual culture which includes knowledge, belief, values, morals, customs, and habits, and which mainly refer to ideology as the main content of the notion of system whose functions could be realized through non-compliance constraints. Just because of their complementary functions, institution and culture become inseparable. Institutional innovations or cultural innovations, as creative activities, are the development and discarding of the essence of the traditions. From the historical materialistic perspective, they are the essential requirement for productivity, the understanding of the economic foundations, and the measurement to adapt to social advancement. In reality, institution innovations are often inseparable from the effective support of cultural innovation. Similarly, cultural innovations also need the promotion and guarantee of institution innovation. Only through organic connection and harmonious interaction can institution innovation and cultural innovation find a new way. To realize this, some principles should be adhered to. Those principles, such as human-oriented concept, scientific development, fair play and justice, seek-truth-from-fact concept, not only provide securities but also specify the directions. On the other hand, culture, as the foundation and soil of the institutions, is top-priority to search for the possible method. In order to achieve the target, we must take measures as following: firstly, a concept is always the precursor of one's behaviors and different concepts will have different effects, and therefore we must emancipate the mind and build the creative concepts to guide the interaction between the institutional innovation and cultural innovation. Secondly, we should create a favorable cultural environment, awake the awareness of all members to abide by the institution and establish the authority of the institutions. Only by doing so, alienation in the institutions can be eliminated. Finally, we should treat Chinese and foreign cultures with broad mind and open eyes, thus to fully tap into the excellent institutional and cultural resources, to foster our socialistic advanced culture and come to an agreement on cultural values.