关键词: 科技创新, 创新体系, 创新文化, 专利管理

Abstract: Technological innovation has become the theme of the present-day China with the enterprises acting as the backbone of the national technological innovation system. The enterprises of the innovative type in the world have some characteristics in common, including innovative corporate culture and organization, energetic support from the top management, emphasis on IPR management and application, reasonable management of innovative project assemblage, highlight of customers’ demand and optimization of the standards and procedures for project examination. Of international oil majors, Shell, ExxonMobil and BP are remarkable in their capacity for technological innovation. Shell is especially excellent for its performance in this area, which owns a perfect technological innovation system and has been long engaged in its technological innovation plans, including Shell Technology Ventures, Shell GameChanger, Shell TechWorks, Academic Research, and Future Energy Technology. Borrowing successful innovation experiences from foreign companies, the Chinese technological research institutes should focus their efforts on clarification of innovation orientation, cultivation of talented staff members, adherence to the customer-oriented principle, development of corporate culture for innovation, and launch of action plans for technological innovation, thus improving their capability for technological innovation and bringing about innovation development.