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Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Keywords

national innovation system；overall performance；systems thinking；the new era

Abstract

Advancing high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology and accelerating efforts to build China into a leading country in science and technology have placed new demands on the development of China’s national innovation system and the enhancement of its overall performance in the new era. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has continuously advanced the development of its national innovation system, with its actor structure, functional linkages, and operating mechanisms becoming increasingly developed and system-level capabilities and overall performance receiving growing attention. As the 15th Five-Year Plan period marks a critical phase in building China into a leading country in science and technology, further boosting the overall performance of the national innovation system is of growing strategic significance. Based on a review of the practical evolution and development of China’s national innovation system, this study adopts systems thinking as its overarching methodological perspective and identifies key issues that require attention from four dimensions: system composition, hierarchical functions, dynamic mechanisms, and performance generation. The analysis suggests that boosting the overall performance of the national innovation system depends on the coordination of diverse innovation actors, functional linkages across multiple levels, and the coordination of internal and external innovation drivers, so as to transform dispersed innovation activities into system-level capabilities aligned with national strategic missions. On this basis, this study further proposes development directions for China’s national innovation system in the new era.

First page

1829

Last Page

1841

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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