The Historic Study Of Universities' Functions Transform And Organizations' Innovation

After the foundation of European Universities in the Middle Age, the universities' functions have been enlarged and extended. From an organization of transmitting knowledge only, it has developed to a complicated organization of transmitting knowledge, developing knowledge and serving the society. The extending of the universities' functions will cause innovations certainly. This article looks back the history of the functions first and explores the innovations of the universities in clue to it then. In the process of exploring, this article adopts the theory of structure-function and analyzes constitution elements of ideas, activities, technologies and regimes. On this basis, I expound the influential factors and means of innovations. In the end, this article explores the relations between the functions transition and innovations in the view of setting up new institutions, increasing layers, and innovating regimentation, etc.