課程目標：本課程站在社會學的角度來理解創新。社會學的起源來自於工業革命，專注討論技術創新對社會帶來的變化與衝擊，因此關注創新成為社會學亙古不變關心的議題。本課程計畫希望由社會學的角度出發，希望透過理論與經驗層次的分析，理解社會學者們是如何看待社會創新這個具有推動社會變遷之重要現象。

課程概論：創新作為推動人類社會變遷的重要現象，在當代社會中扮演了相當的重要性。但問題是我們應該要如何理解創新？過往在討論創新時，往往將創新的社會過程是為黑盒子，人們無法理解創新的過程為何。不過，社會學者認為任何社會行為都不同其所處社會中的社會脈絡的約制，創新亦然。社會學者認為創新並不是在一個真空狀態下橫空出世的特殊現象，創新的出現對應了某個特殊的社會脈絡，甚至是希望解決某個特定的社會問題。因此，本課程介紹了社會學如何理解創新的各種觀點，包含了「創新的社會基礎」、「模仿與創新」、「組織創新理論」、「企業家精神的基礎」、「創新的擴散與學習」、「金融網絡創新」以及「知識創新網絡」。希望透過社些相關議題的討論，讓同學理解創新的社會基礎為何。

Course objective: This course understands innovation from the perspective of social science. The origin of social science comes from the industrial revolution, focusing on discussing the changes and impacts brought by technological innovation to society, so focusing on innovation has become a question that social science has never been concerned about in history. This course plan hopes to be developed from the perspective of social science, and hopes to understand how social students view social innovation, which is an important phenomenon of promoting social changes through the analysis of theoretical and experience levels.

Course Overview: Innovation plays a very important role in promoting the transformation of human society. But the question is how should we understand innovation? In the past, when discussing innovation, the innovative social process was often a black box, and people could not understand why the innovation process was. However, socialists believe that any social behavior is different from the social system in which they live, and so is innovation. Socialists believe that innovation is not a special phenomenon of being empty under a vacuum. The emergence of innovation corresponds to a particular social force, and even hopes to solve a specific social problem. Therefore, this course introduces how social science understands various perspectives of innovation, including "innovative social foundation", "imitation and innovation", "organizational innovation theory", "foundation of entrepreneurial spirit", "innovation expansion and learning", "financial network innovation" and "knowledge innovation network". I hope that through discussions on some relevant issues of the society, students can understand the fundamentals of innovative society.

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