技术创新每天都在发生,今天的技术创新几乎成了世界性的话题,但技术创新是如何发生的?为什么有的技术创新成功了,而有的技术创新却失败了,其原因是什么?本文试图从进化论的视角对此进行探讨。本文认为技术创新的发生是其底层因子如知识、信息、智力相互作用以及与市场、人文、社会、制度协同进化的过程。技术创新成功的原因是其被市场所选择;技术创新失败的原因是其没有被市场所选择。

Technological innovation takes place everyday, and today technological innovation has almost become a cosmopolitan issue. But what on earth brings about tech-innovations? Why some tech-innovations succeed while some fail? This paper attempts to tackle these issues from the visual angle of evolutionism. This paper holds that the emergence of technological innovation is due to the interaction of its underlying factors such as knowledge, information and intelligence, plus the co-evolutionary process of market, humanity, society, and social system. Tech-innovation owes its success to the selection of the market; on the contrary, the failure of tech-innovation is its failure to be selected by the market.