Apparel Industry Innovation Ability Evaluation Index System Research

With the accelerated pace of economic globalization and constant updating in science and technology, "innovation" has become a hot topic of all walks of life. International textile industry are developing quickly at an unprecedented speed, intelligent manufacturing and internet transformed traditional manufacturing industry profoundly. At present, each section of China’s textile and garment industry chain displays uneven development and irrational structure. Digestion and absorption capacity is weak after the introduction of technology, additionally export earnings mainly depends on production and processing sectors, low value-added products accounts majority share of the market. "Made in China 2025" designed the innovation drive as one of the guidelines,making technology breakthroughs in a number of key areas, taking the road of development driven by innovation. By adopting process improvement and development of new products to improve the added value of products and reduce resource consumption, approaching to connotative development way, rather than pursuing the rise of industry scale in the international market only via participating in competition through products price, quantity, which are in the lower level of competition advantage.This study is aiming to analyze related influence factors of textile and garment industry innovation ability, using Delphi method to construct textile and garment industry innovation ability index system, applying analytic hierarchy process to calculate each index weight, obtaining the corresponding sort results. After summarizing textile and garment industry innovation ability core elements, I chose the representative cities which have specialty within garment industry such as Beijing, Shanghai etc. to study respectively, analyzing and making evaluation the innovation ability one by one, summarizing the influence factors, verifying the applicability and rationality of the index system finally.The fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method was applied to evaluate China’s textile andclothing industry innovation ability. Every individual region can measure their own innovation ability comprehensively according to the grading results. In the same time they can realize their own weaknesses and development potential, making corresponding improvements and adjustments to enhance innovation ability of the whole industry for further involvement in market competition and new challenges.