Ecosystem Supporting Industry 4.0 Technologies in Textile and Clothing Manufacturing

Abstract

Using the systemic quad mode as the basis for examining the ecosystem supporting firms, this chapter uses a sample of 52 textiles and clothing firms to evaluate firms’ assessment of the four systemic pillars, i.e., basic infrastructure: science, technology, and innovation infrastructure; global integration; and network cohesion in Malaysia. The findings show that the basic infrastructure and integration with global factor and final markets of textiles and clothing firms in Malaysia are generally good but there is still a significant need to strengthen the STI infrastructure and network cohesion between the firms and universities and RandD organizations to plug the gaps in the embedding ecosystem supporting firms. Such an institutional upgrading should coincide with the promotion of IR4.0 technologies in firms.