Innovation in Future Industries and Emerging Sectors of Strategic Importance,and New Quality Productive Forces:Theoretical Logic and Practical Path
"New quality productive forces"is an important concept proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his inspection in Heilongjiang in 2023.From a theoretical perspective,General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on new quality productive forces is the inheritance and development of the Marxist productivity theory.It contains rich innovation categories and connotation characteristics and provides scientific theoretical guidance and action guidelines for comprehensively grasping the breakthrough direction of a new round of scientific and technological revolution in the new era and promoting high-quality development of productive forces.This paper analyzes the theoretical logic and practical path of promoting the formation of new quality productive forces through innovation in emerging industries in the framework of evolutionary economics.Based on defining the scope of emerging industries,the paper summarizes the connotation and main characteristics of innovation in emerging industries,and explains the logical relationship between innovation in emerging industries and the formation of new quality productive forces from the perspective of evolutionary economic theory,and then proposes the main path to promote new quality productive forces through innovation in emerging industries at a practical level,exploring the focus of Chinese future industrial strategy and specific industrial policy choices under the guidance of cultivating new quality productive forces.Compared with existing research,the possible marginal contributions of this paper are as follows.Firstly,this paper introduces the analytical perspective of the technological economics paradigm of evolutionary economics and believes that emerging industries including strategic emerging industries and future industries are characterized by disruptive technological innovation-driven,forward-looking industrial layout,high market and organizational uncertainty,and more opportunities for technological catch-up.As the leading industries of the technological revolution wave,the process of emerging industries growing into leading industries and even pillar industries through disruptive technological innovation is essentially the process of cultivating new quality productive forces.Secondly,in terms of theoretical logic,it is found that there is a high degree of consistency between the innovation of emerging industries and the formation of new quality productive forces based on technological sources,factor combinations,and industrial foundations.It is proposed that the technological source and institutional design of emerging industry innovation should be regarded as an important driving force for the formation of new quality productive forces and the main content of institutional improvement.Thirdly,in terms of practical paths,since the diffusion of radical innovation in emerging industries depends on the co-evolution of three elements:core elements,infrastructure,and economic organization,Chinese future industrial strategy should focus on promoting the accumulation and utilization of new production factors,accelerating the improvement and upgrading of new infrastructure,actively introducing changes in production organization methods,and forward-looking planning of future industrial layout,thus promoting the formation and development of new quality productive forces.This paper provides a new approach for the academic and policy circles to deepen their understanding of the logical relationship between innovation in emerging industries and the formation of new quality productive forces.It will help promote the smooth replacement of traditional productive forces with new quality productive forces while promoting the transformation of the technological and economic paradigm in China and provide useful theoretical research viewpoints and applied policy recommendations.