熊彼特所发扬的,导源于古典经济学家的,关注创新与经济变迁的理论传统,正日渐彰显其强大的生命力。对创新的研究也逐渐从关注“创新”本身,扩展到关注创新主体及其经济的、制度的和文化的大环境,即“创新系统”。具体到城市这一中观层面,创意城市不仅关涉文化创意产业发展和创意阶层集聚,更暗含着城市作为孕育创新的有机体,其经由“人——城市——人”的循环积累所达到的提升人类福祉的可能性。从经济哲学的视角看,这种可能性至少可以从两条路径来实现:一是生产力的再解放,它可通过文化层面上创意思维对工具理性的逐步超越而获得进展;二是人类存在状态的回归,它可通过制度层面上创意劳动对异化劳动的不断扬弃而取得改善。 Schumpeter’s theory tradition, which draws inspiration from the classical economists and focuses on innovation and economic change, is showing his strong vitality gradually. Research on innovation has also gradually expanded from being concerned with “innovation” itself to focusing on the subject of innovation and its economic, institutional and cultural environment, namely, the “innovation system.” Specific to the meso level of the city, the creative city is not only related to the development of cultural and creative industries and the concentration of creative classes, but also implies that cities are the organism that breeds innovation through the cycle accumulation of “people-city-people” The possibility of enhancing human well-being. From an economic philosophical point of view, this possibility can be achieved in at least two ways: first, the emancipation of productive forces, which can make progress through gradual transcendence of instrumental rationality through creative thinking on the cultural level; second, the state of human existence It can be improved through the constant sublation of alienated labor through creative work at the institutional level.