Abstract: Innovationdriven development was put forward in the Report to the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Currently， Liaoning Province is in the transitional stage from investmentdriven to innovationdriven， and it is necessary to concentrate on institutional improvement because of the indirect realism of ideology and the rigid features of institutions themselves. By improving the institutional supplies， perfecting the allocation system of scitech resources， strengthening the enterprises consciousness and motivation of technological innovation， bettering the system of cooperative innovation and scientific evaluation， training and introducing innovative talents， fostering an innovationdriven culture， and overcoming the main obstacles in the innovationdriven development， it is likely to update the ideological concepts， dominate the productive factors， develop the goals and promote the innovationdriven development.

Key words: Liaoning, innovationdriven development, institutional guarantee