创新是指以现有的思维模式提出有别于常规或常人思路的见解为导向,利用现有的知识和物质,在特定的环境中,本着理想化需要或为满足社会需求,而改进或创造新的事物、方法、元素、路径、环境,并能获得一定有益效果的行为。中文“创新”一词是在1980年代才被人们接受的。英语:Innovation是指科技上的发明、创造。后来意义发生推广,用于指代在人的主观作用推动下产生所有以前没有的设想、技术、文化、商业或者社会方面的关系。也指自然科学的新发现。 Innovation refers to the existing mode of thinking is different from the conventional or ordinary thinking ideas as the guide, the use of existing knowledge and material, in a particular environment, in line with the ideal of the needs or to meet the needs of society, and improve or Create new things, methods, elements, paths, environment, and can get some beneficial effect behavior. The Chinese word “innovation” was not accepted until the 1980s. English: Innovation refers to the invention of science and technology. Later, the promotion of meaning was used to refer to the creation of all the previously conceived, technical, cultural, commercial or social relations driven by the subjective role of man. Also refers to the new discovery of natural sciences.