Research on the evaluation of the innovation ability of garment enterprises under the background of digital economy
In the context of the rapid development of the digital economy,information technologies represented by cloud computing,Internet of Things,and digital twins are fully embedded in the garment industry.The garment industry is rapidly reorganizing the entire industrial chain from design to after-sales.At present,China's garment industry,as a labor-intensive industry,is facing the dilemma of gradually weakening cost advantages,market contraction,weak high-end product development and manufacturing capabilities.Accelerating the pace of technology integration and improving the innovation ability of garment enterprises to cope with the development dilemma has increasingly become the consensus of the industry and academia,and even the focus of government decision-making.By combing the literature,it is found that there is little literature on the evaluation of innovation ability of textile and garment enterprises,and there are problems of strong subjectivity in the evaluation process and insufficient sample size.At the same time,driven by digital technologies such as big data,artificial intelligence and industrial Internet,the innovation process of garment enterprises is gradually integrated,and a new index system needs to be constructed to evaluate their innovation ability.To promote the technological progress and innovation development of clothing enterprises,this paper took China's listed clothing companies as the research object,analyzed the main factors affecting the innovation ability,measured the level of innovation ability,and evaluated the innovation ability.The research time interval is from 2016 to 2022.Through the analysis of the relevant literature in the field of textile and garment,this paper chose the listed companies in the textile and garment industry.After excluding the enterprises with delisting risk,undisclosed annual report and termination of listing during the sample period,this paper selected 25 sample enterprises that have survived.In terms of evaluation methods,global factor analysis has the advantage of objective results in dealing with multi-dimensional and multi-index index system,which meets the needs of research.Therefore,this paper introduced the dimension of digital level and constructed the evaluation index system of innovation ability of listed clothing companies,which contains 15 indicators in five dimensions:innovation input,innovation output,business performance,environmental factors and digital level.Based on the panel data of 25 listed Chinese clothing companies from 2016 to 2022,the global factor analysis method was used to aggregate 15 quantitative indicators into five common factors.The weights of these common factors were determined according to the corresponding variance contribution rate,and then the scores of each common factor were weighted and averaged to obtain the innovation ability score.After obtaining the score of enterprise innovation ability,the average scores of common factors and comprehensive factors of sample enterprises were calculated to explore the overall level of innovation ability.Three major conclusions were drawn.First,R&D investment and patent output,enterprise growth,business environment and digital talents,regional scientific research environment and equipment digitization level positively affected the innovation ability of listed clothing companies.Among them,R&D investment and patent output had the highest variance contribution rate of 20.32％,which was the key factor affecting innovation ability.Second,during the sample period,the average score of innovation ability continued to decrease from 0.003 to-0.011,indicating that the overall innovation ability of listed clothing companies was still at the middle and lower levels.Third,the average score of business environment and digital talent factor decreased from 0.024 to 0.020 in fluctuation,while the average score of regional scientific research environment and equipment digitization level factor continued to rise from-0.002 to 0.013,indicating that the overall level of digitization of sample enterprises was good.Finally,this paper put forward four major suggestions.First,the core enterprises of the supply chain need to enable the enterprises on the chain to share the dividends of digital applications,and also shoulder the burden of promoting the whole chain of digital technology.Second,enterprises with weak innovation ability should increase investment in innovation resources and actively carry out digital cooperative innovation.Third,the government should introduce diversified support policies,improve the level of patent application services in the garment industry,and accelerate the construction of information technology infrastructure.Fourth,it is necessary to rely on industry associations and professional societies to build a digital innovation exchange platform and share digital innovation achievements.This paper evaluates the innovation ability of listed clothing companies from five aspects:innovation input,innovation output,business performance,environmental factors and digital level.It is found that innovation ability is affected by R&D investment,patent output,enterprise growth,business environment and digital talents,regional scientific research environment and equipment digital level.Follow-up research can measure the level of equipment digitization from more perspectives,such as digital fixed assets plus digital intangible assets divided by total assets.
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