据统计,世界总产值是20年翻一番,知识的增长率大体上与产值增长率的平方成正比。作为开拓新知识主要力量的科学技术人员,则以15年翻一番的速度增长着。作为科研成果表现形式之一的科学论文和专利,其数量都不到10年就翻一番。每年世界各地发表的新发现、新发明有三、四百万件 According to statistics, the world’s total output value is doubled in 20 years. The growth rate of knowledge is roughly proportional to the square of the growth rate of output value. As a major force in developing new knowledge of science and technology personnel, then 15 years to double the rate of growth. As one of the manifestations of scientific research, scientific papers and patents have doubled in less than 10 years. Every year, new discoveries and new inventions released around the world have three or four million pieces