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Innovation, research and development, together with knowledge and entrepreneurship, represent a key factor of industrial competitiveness and a fundamental element of sustainability and stimulation of economic growth, while SMEs are generators of the economic development of every society. The need for modernization of SMEs of the clothing industry by the implementation of technological and technical innovations and especially information and communication technologies (ICT), but also the inefficiency of such applications, explicitly point to numerous problems of work, development and sustainable competitiveness of SMEs, emphasizing the specifics of SMEs, clothing industry and developing countries. The book provides an overview of the analysis, defining and defining these specifics, which should then be incorporated as important parameters in generating new strategies, with improved performance and SME development, and as such is intended for designers, managers, directors and owners of SMEs, economic and economic analysts, students and professors of vocational schools and faculties.

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Dimitrijevic, Dragan
Dragan Dimitrijevic, Serbia; basic studies: graduated physicist, master: technical sciences, PHD: technical sciences (industrial engineering), business: Business School of Vocational Studies; Faculty of Applied Sciences, Member editorial board of the magazine Maintenance of machines and magazines Knowledge management.

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