Today,there are still some amphibolous understanding on the concepts of endogenous innovation and its three patterns in academia field.Grasping the intension and extension of these concepts will contribute to direct the innovation undertakers engaging innovation and the governments establishing innovation system.In order to achieve such aims,we firstly introduced the concept of endogenous innovation and its three patterns.Secondly,this paper established a concept model to describe the typical route of a technology’s forming.Based on this model,we went deep into analysis on original innovation,integrative innovation,and re-innovation after digesting the introduced technology from different views.Through these analyses,we also discussed which kind of innovation is suitable for different corporations.In the last part of this paper,we summarized our main conclusions and gave some suggestions to the corporations and governments.
