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• Main Author: RAISSA ERISTINA (NIM: 23410009), R.
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/19375
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Small and Medium Entreprises (SMEs) Textile and Textile Product (TPT) is one of the main locomotive triggering the economic growth of local territory especially in West Java. SMEs Textile and Textile Product especially weaving process is choosen because weaving fabric is one of the priority product in this area. However, when the rate of competition is getting tougher, the local textile industries are still facing many obstacles. One of the obstacles is the weak competitiveness of the national proucts. Nowadays, TPT SMEs is demanded to make changes and innovations as the key factor to a company's competitiveness. The importance of an innovations means it will drive SMEs to enhance the capability of innovation in order to be able to perform innovations. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> This research is aimed to identify any kind of both internal and external factors which will be able to improve the capability of innovation of SMEs. Then to improve the model of connection of those innovation sources and to analyse the influence of those sources upon the innovative ability. This research is also investigating on which of the most dominant innovation source influencing the innovative ability in textile SMEs.The model development on capability of innovation in this research divides the sources of innovation into 2 variables, which are the internal source of innovation and eksternal source of innovation, while to measure the company's capibilty of innovation 8 variable will be used. The measuring in this research is in the form of one set of questionnaire which includes 73 items which had been trialled on 45 small and medium entreprises (SMEs) textile dan textile product (TPT) in Bandung region. The answers acquired will be then processed using the technique of partial least square (PLS). Based on the data processing, valid questionnaire with 58 questions obtained. The conclusion from this research represent that internal source of innovation have a greater contribution on increasing capability of the firm`s innovation capability.