中文摘要：

全球化与知识经济的迅速发展，使城市的职能正在发生革命性的变化。城市的职能已由工业城市的生产、制造职能、服务城市的管理与协调职能向创新、创意职能转化，城市化是人口与景观的变化过程，也是城市创新功能的创造过程，城市创新职能表现出与其他职能不同的特征。城市创新职能可从全球、城市之间、城市内部多个尺度进行研究，对探讨建立全球及我国的城市空间创新体系，以及完善城市规划都具有重要意义。

英文摘要：

With the rapid development of globalization and knowledge economy, urban functions have revolutionarily changes from the function of production, manufacturing as well as management and coordination in industrial society to the creative and innovational function. The paper views that urbanization is not only changing process of population and landscape and also is the creation of process of urban innovation function. Urban innovation function presents different characteristics, compared with other urban function. Multi-scale research from global, inter-urban and intra-urban have much significance of establishing global and China＇s urban spatial innovational system and perfecting urban planning.