Abstract:Connection thinking is to implement the universal connection principles of Marxist philosophy, which can improve efficiency of innovation. Connection thinking for innovation requires bold thinking, cross-border combination, and comprehensive analysis: bold imagination and widespread association can help dig out the various potential contact; across boundaries to combine different properties, different types or things in different areas, is to change indirect links, hidden links or potential links to actual and obvious links; analysis of the links between internal elements of one thing, the links between one thing and the other things, and the successive relationship lasted around one thing itself, is able to accurately recognize objective laws of the thing.