关键词: 基于科学的创新, 巴斯德象限, 科学与技术的关系, 案例研究, science-based innovation, Pasture quadrant, link between science and technology, case study

Abstract: Science is not just the enquiry of knowledge; it can also produce new technology. This type of innovations, namely, science-based innovations, usually happen in the frontiers of science, related to generations of new industries. Theories, however, haven’t paid adequqte attention in understanding this type of innovations. By re-analysis of two famous cases, namely the case of penicillin and the case of transistor, this article tries to shed some light in the patterns, interactions and dynamics of science-based innovations. Science-based innovation shows a linear pattern, driven by scientific discoveries, relying on the interactions of science and technology. These two cases also show that in some industries innovations keep being related to scientific discoveries, while in other industries innovations can shift from science-based to technology-based. The implications for theories and policies of these findings are discussed in this article too.