分析表明：创新方法的得当可使技术创新事半功倍，尤其对原始创新来说具有较大的应用价值。

Analysis results show that proper innovation method may achieve twice the results with half the effort, and has big application value for original innovation.

介绍了中国科学院长沙大地构造所基础研究工作的成绩和管理经验，强调了原始创新在基础研究中的重要性。

Achievements and management experience of basic research in Changsha Institute of Geotectonics of the CAS are introduced and the importance of original innovation in basic research is emphasized.

缺乏原始创新使制造成本增加，利润减少。

That lack of innovation comes with a cost.