New whole-nation system and the national innovation system: Historical evolution and synergistic experience

Abstract

The national innovation system must take on the national mission of innovation-driven development and scientific and technological self-reliance, while facing the transformative challenges of global competition for technological monopolies and the challenge of digital evolution of innovation paradigm in large countries, which puts forward a new strategic conception for the transformation of the national innovation system in the new era. In order to explore a new models of technology governance with Chinese Characteristics, we review the interactive process and characteristic experiences between the national innovation system and the overall system, and finds that they synergistically constitute the governance foundation of national innovation development under the impetus of digitization, which promotes the digital transformation of the national innovation system as well as leads the change of the national innovation mechanism. The above study further establishes a logical connection between national innovation theory and digital innovation theory, and useful exploration in further promoting the deepening reform of the national innovation system.