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Chinese Traditional Culture's Influence On The Innovation Ability Of Technological Organizations

Posted on:2009-11-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C H LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360245967738Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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China has developed unique traditional cultures through thousands of years. Chinese traditional culture has the characteristics of self-enclosed, and inertia because of its long-time of family fanning. It limited the desire of the people, limited its impulse that try to change the status existed. Ordinary people has no time to focus on scientific research because of the low labor productivity. The "intelligentsia class " have more leisure time, but they use it to research how to worship spirits and how to strengthen their rule of people using the "act of God". Low labor productivity also led to few surplus products, and less developed commercial activities. Without commercial prosperity, multifaceted in formations and solid investment that scientific research activities needed will have no insurance. At the same time, more than 1,000 year's imperial examination system has created a large number of scholars who obey and fear of authority. They are lack of the courage of breaking rules, and courage of daring to explore. Besides, China's traditional culture paradigm stressed on practice, which led to the neglect of basic theoretical research, and a serious shortage of momentum of technological development. The thought of "Harmony" denied the boundaries between people and nature, so that people lose the enthusiasm of exploring the natural regulation. Traditional culture put a great emphasis on" think", which made corresponding knowledge structure lack of systematic, and logical rigor. All of these have hindered the enhance of the innovation capability of technological organization.Of course, China's traditional culture also has the factors of promoting the innovation capability of technological organization. For example the humble attitude of scholarship, strong ability of abstracting, make it easy to grasp the profound theoretical knowledge for Chinese scholars; admiration of Collectivism make it easier to cooperate in technological organization; the thought of "abstinence" is good for forming the academic atmosphere that willing to do research lonely and so on.China's traditional culture still affects technological organization now, its positive and negative effects are shown in a variety of different ways. In order to improve the capability of innovation of technological organization of China, we must work on both internal and external. We must take corresponding measures to create an atmosphere that is conducive to technological innovation and to raise the organization's cultural atmosphere. Only in this way can we enhance the original innovation capacity of our technological organizations.
Keywords/Search Tags:traditional culture, technology organization, innovation ability, influence
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