中文摘要：

创新早已成为主流经济学的核心变量,农户是农村创新活动的微观主体,然而到目前为止,农户创新的概念没有得到很好的界定。在回顾农户创新文献的基础上,认为农户创新指农户依据自身的能力和资源,重新组织生产要素,做出技术、市场、组织上的变革和改进,实现创新经济效益、改变传统行为方式的过程。通过分析农户创新这一概念的内涵和外延,初步构建了由技术创新、市场创新、组织创新三方面指标构成的农户创新测度指标体系。

英文摘要：

Innovation has become a core variable in the mainstream economy,and innovation in the country are mainly done by farmers,however,the concept of farmer innovation has not got the clear limits so far.On the basis of reviewing the literatures of farmer innovation,this paper pionted that farmer innovation is a process,in which farmers reorganize production factors and then make changes in technology,market and organization to get economic benefit and change their traditional lifestyle depending on their own capacity and resource.Through analyzing the intension and extension of the concept,this paper preliminarily developed a measurement index system composed of technology innovation index,market innovation index and organizational innovation index.