Define “Innovation” in Semantic Field by Means of Textual Research

Abstract

Targeting the discursive power of innovation, “innovation” as philosophical category is discovered in textual research that different from “creation” by the subject of “innovation” could only be human or its collective, and the object could only be nonhuman. As the semantic fields of “practice” or “innovation” displayed, innovation is manifested from different perspectives through the notions of “practice”, “creation”, “labor”, “invention”, “discovery” and “establishment”, etc. The essence of “innovation” is the creative practice increased the total amount of benefits, and its essential feature is worthiness reflected from the subjective and objective dimensions.