Abstract:

The Nobel Prize in Natural Science and the InnovationType Country(School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433)Abstract： It is one of the most important signals of the innovationtype country to possess a lot of Nobel Prize winners in natural science and prize achievements. This essay, by taking the "countries where winners work out their prize achievement" as the criteria, has a statistical investigation of the number of the Nobel Prize winners in natural science all over the world. The result reveals that these winners concentrate highly on such principal innovationtype countries as the United States, Britain, Germany and France. And for these innovationtype countries, the essay has a detailed analysis of their original innovation in science and technology, which has been considered as the basic strategic orientation of the state development, as the national innovation system that is not only distinctive but also full of vitality, as the possession of the topgrade universities in the world that can train and bring up scientific elites, as the powerful input of the research fund, and as the academic environment of opening, relaxation and freedom. And then, the essay goes further to disclose their creative mechanism and supporting system of the society, in which those scientific elites as the Nobel Prize winners are working. By summing up China' s achievements of the worldwide attention in the process of going into the creative country, and having an analysis of the main problem and big difference existing in China' s doing so, especially the problem of "why China has nothing with the Nobel Prize" from the perspective of combing history with reality, the essay also has a deep probe into the main reason why there is such a big difference between China and the western countries. The author considers that it will not be a dream for China to have a Nobel Prize in natural science. So long as it faces up to reality, being patient for success and solving effectively every problem, China will be sure to become a new rising star that shines in the worldwide innovationtype countries.
 

Key words: Nobel Prize in natural science, innovationtype country, nnovationoriented country, national innovation system, contemporary "Needham Problem", basic study