Research on new patterns of fostering the innovative ability in China's graduate education

Abstract

Graduate education in China is entrusted with dual mission of cultivating highly qualified elite and innovative talents as China's growth strategies of building an innovative country and its reinvigoration are both rooted in fostering innovative proficiency of graduates in the knowledge-based economic era. However, there is much of deficiency in the graduate education covering from curriculum setup, cultivation process, teaching management to fostering patterns which has confined the development of graduates' innovative ability. The purpose of the study is to find out the restrictions of the traditional cultivating patterns in innovative ability-building and to work out the applicable new pattern of fostering the innovative ability in graduate education. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.