Product development (textiles)

Aesthetics, durability, comfort and safety, appearance retention, care, environmental impact, and cost are the serviceability concepts employed in structuring the material.

This emphasizes the critical nature of actual innovation in reclaiming a market leadership position.

[3]: 7, 8, 9 Global competitiveness in the textile and garment industries has intensified in recent years, owing in part to changes in world trade policy.

[4] Innovation is the systematic application of ideas that results in the introduction of new goods or services or the enhancement of existing ones.

[1]: 379 Throughout the textile industry, product development decisions are made to determine whether a market exists for them.