The Interdisciplinary Education for Chinese Universities Under the Innovation-driven Strategy

The social & economic development of a country/region has experienced three stages: factors of production driven, capital driven, innovation driven. During the innovation driven stage, the sustainable development of society rely on individuals with great innovative capability and aggregation of different organizations. In the past 30 years, the inner knowledge production and outer knowledge flow of universities has changed profoundly. The tradition of openness and competitiveness of university further promote its knowledge flow with other innovation bodies. The knowledge spillover and knowledge diffusion will continue to deepen in multiple areas like entrepreneurship spirit fostering, university innovation technology transfer and university - industry collaboration mechanism. So, the interdisciplinary approach will be applied to develop students' interdisciplinary knowledge structure, thinking abilities, which becomes the necessary way for Chinese universities to first-class undergraduate teaching. These changes not only facilitate the knowledge production of university, but form the regional innovation ecosystem.