什么是创新?“创,始造之也”(见《汉书,叙传下》)。始者,即第一次,即新事物。创新就是要见前人所未见,言前人所未言,做前人所未做,从而向社会提供新理论、新事物、新方法、新成果等等。创新活动有两个要素,一是其提供的产物是前所未有的;二是其提供的产物必须有社会意义。企业创新的外延包括很广,如:管理创新,产品创新,技术创新,制度创新,组织创新等。企业职工的创新思维和创新能力不是先天就有的,而是后天培养和锻炼的。这就需要企业自己主动去创造一个培养和锻炼的环境条件。“时世造就英雄,环境陶冶职工”。职工是处在一个守旧的企业环境,还是处在一个创新的企业环境,其创造力的发挥不大一样。为什么有的企业 What is innovation? “Created, the beginning of the” (see “Han, Syria Biography”). The first, that is, the new thing. Innovation is to see the world before us. If we say nothing of the past, we will do something unprecedented to provide the society with new theories, new things, new methods, new achievements and so on. There are two elements of innovation activities. One is that the products they provide are unprecedented. The other is that the products they provide must have social significance. The extension of enterprise innovation includes a wide range, such as: management innovation, product innovation, technological innovation, institutional innovation, organizational innovation. Innovative business thinking and innovative ability of workers is not inherent, but nurture and exercise. This requires companies to take the initiative to create a culture and training of the environmental conditions. “Time to create a hero, the environment to mold workers.” Workers in a conservative business environment, or in an innovative business environment, its creativity is not the same play. Why some companies