In creative industries such as fashion, availability and accessibility of required resources have huge positive influence on new product development success. By starting with the question on what makes a designer fashion SME successful,this research then grounded its focus on the area of new product development and design-driven innovation. This study employed a qualitative approach and used semi-structured interviews as a method of collecting data from the field.A two-staged research design were planned and executed. This study has suggested that patristic-symbiotic relationships between designer fashion SMEs and large high street retailers can be more complicated than the literature has stated when adopting a broader view to investigate sources of creativity fro man industrial perspective.
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This study aims to investigate the sources of creativity in the fashion industry with the research emphasis on the relationship between high-end designers and highs street retailers. Existing research outlines two key sources of product innovation: internally developed within the organisation or outsourced to third-party companies on either ad-hoc or an ongoing basis. In the fashion industry this is even complex which has included the development of fashion ranges in-house or the use of designers and even celebrities on ad-hoc basis.The research proposed to explore the relationship between the large fashion houses and the small independent companies and designers. This allows this study to explore whether a trade-off occurred between high-creativity versus commercial skill and viability.
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