The Role of Higher Vocational Education in National Innovation Chain

摘要

What position and what to do in the national innovation chain for higher vocational education, is the question we are studying. We investigated the division of knowledge production and the types of talents in different types of universities to establish the orientation of higher vocational education. Then, connecting with the definition of innovation in the classic literature of the United States and Europe, we find the new connotation, new requirements and new forms of innovation in the industry 4.0 era and new consumption age, to respond to "what can do" in the innovation chain for higher vocational education. We believe that higher vocational education should regard technology transformation, soft innovation, new ideas of technology and business method innovation as the dimension of innovation, and focus on technological innovation and transformation in the field of technological post-market, middle-low and middle-high technological industries.