A Study On The Upgrade Of Zhejiang Garment Industrial Clusters Based On Cluster Innovation Network

With the development of world economy, industrial clusters appear in the world as a special economic form. Many countries and regions have been improving their own economy by making use of the industrial clusters' advantages. In a word, the industrial clusters have made important contribution to the development of their economy.Along with the development of reform and opening-up, the local industrial clusters in Zhejiang sprang up everywhere, and vigorously promoted the development of Zhejiang's economy. Zhejiang garment industrial clusters got rapid growth on this basis and, become important strengths to promote economic development in many parts of Zhejiang province, for example, Hangzhou, Ningbo. However, at present these garment industrial clusters are still in the initial stage of development of the cluster.In the face of the fierce international competition,Zhejiang garment industrial clusters don't show the competitiveness. In contrast, many problems within it appear. Many enterprises are lack of the ability of independent innovation. There are lack of communication and cooperation between enterprises and other institutions too. Perfect cluster innovation network has not taken shape. All these are root causes of this situation.The development and improvement of cluster innovation network is subject to the exchanges and cooperation of behavioral agents and, it also can contribute to the spread of new knowledge and new technologies. The companies in the cluster will get more innovative knowledge and much information so as to march better technical innovation. In a sense, this will avail the overall upgrade of industrial clusters.Although Zhejiang garment industrial clusters have achieved some development in recent years, many problems still exist in the process of the upgrade of Zhejiang garment industrial clusters. How to solve these problems so as to promote the innovation and upgrade of Zhejiang garment industrial clusters and to further drive economic development in Zhejiang become a tough problem which the local government and enterprises of Zhejiang must solve.According to the existing problem in the process of the upgrade of Zhejiang garment industrial cluster, the author comprehensively applies a series of related theories, such as the basic theory of industrial cluster, the theory of industrial cluster's upgrade, cluster innovation network theory and so on to study the mechanism. That how cluster innovation network promotes the upgrade of Zhejiang garment industrial clusters in this paper. The study has important theoretical and practical value to guide the upgrade of Zhejiang garment industrial clusters.In the third chapter of this paper, the author first points out that continuous innovation ability is the fundamental power which promotes the upgrade of garment industrial cluster, then analyses the innovation dilemma of the small and medium enterprises in garment industrial clusters and, concludes that being lack of exchanges and cooperation between the enterprises and other institutions is the key reason to the current dilemma. At the same time, the author still points out that it's necessary to build innovation networks in garment industrial clusters. On the basis, the author specifically analyses the cluster innovation network's role in the upgrade of garment industrial cluster. In the last, the author analyses and discusses the mechanism that how cluster innovation network promotes the upgrade of garment industrial clusters from two aspects of formal and informal innovation network.In the fourth chapter, the author first analyses the present situations of Zhejiang garment industrial clusters and its innovation network, then analyses the adverse factors in the innovation and upgrade of Zhejiang garment industrial clusters. In the last, the author chooses the typical case of it-Ningbo garment industrial cluster to analyze its innovation network's role in promoting the upgrade of it. The analysis based on the case of Ningbo is to find some empirical support for the conclusion of the paper and at the same time. It will also provide some practical reference and guide values with the upgrade of Zhejiang garment industrial clusters.In the fifth chapter, the author elaborates the strategies and recommendations from five aspects, such as enterprises, local government and so on.In the end, the author gives a summary and outlook to the paper, and points out the limitations of the paper and future research directions.