Formation of sustainable competitiveness of native-type industrial cluster from the perspective of knowledge management innovation: The textile cluster of Shaanxi Province as an example

This issue proposes that cluster knowledge transfer, sharing and innovation, absorption of external knowledge and nurturing the exclusive nature and different quality of knowledge innovation which distinguishes it from other clusters is an important mean for the textile industry cluster to develop based on the characteristics and sources of competitiveness of native-type clusters. It take the textile industry cluster, Shaanxi Province for example, points out that the knowledge systems from a closed to an open knowledge systems need to change ways: firstly, to cultivate external knowledge-based absorptive capacity embedded; secondly, to enhance knowledge-sharing and innovation capacity within the cluster.