'The development of a cross cluster best practice platform for entrepreneurial INNOvation for the technical TEXtiles sector'
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The European textiles sector accounts for some 4% of EU manufacturing production and 7% of manufacturing employment, with an annual turnover of 200 billion euros.
The textiles sector has massive labour cost disadvantages in the production of a relatively low value and labour intensive product. The primary goal, therefore, must be to find higher value and less labour intensive products, and more knowledge based manufacturing processes. To realise these goals it will be necessary to identify potential partners in other sectors to develop joint competences that will enable the textile sector to out-perform competitors from low cost producing countries in Asia Pacific.
The shared vision must be to strengthen the European textile manufacturers' move from low added value textile materials to high added value, variable property, technical textiles, using new technological capabilities. The complementary skills of 4 industrial clusters from different sectors will enable the transfer of best practice between clusters, and will increase their innovation capacity, thereby contributing to the creation of a European Innovation area.
The overarching goal of the INNOTEX project is to:
Develop a best practice platform for innovation and entrepreneurship within the technical textiles sector by identifying and facilitating the transfer of innovation and entrepreneurship best practice between complementary clusters in the technical textiles domain.
The textiles sector has massive labour cost disadvantages in the production of a relatively low value and labour intensive product. The primary goal, therefore, must be to find higher value and less labour intensive products, and more knowledge based manufacturing processes. To realise these goals it will be necessary to identify potential partners in other sectors to develop joint competences that will enable the textile sector to out-perform competitors from low cost producing countries in Asia Pacific.
The shared vision must be to strengthen the European textile manufacturers' move from low added value textile materials to high added value, variable property, technical textiles, using new technological capabilities. The complementary skills of 4 industrial clusters from different sectors will enable the transfer of best practice between clusters, and will increase their innovation capacity, thereby contributing to the creation of a European Innovation area.
The overarching goal of the INNOTEX project is to:
Develop a best practice platform for innovation and entrepreneurship within the technical textiles sector by identifying and facilitating the transfer of innovation and entrepreneurship best practice between complementary clusters in the technical textiles domain.
The above goal encompasses 3 objectives:
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To support networking activities between existing business clusters that operate in the same or different sectors in Europe, highlighting the need to establish European level co-operation platforms that facilitate the exchange of knowledge and best practice between clusters in Europe.
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To promote co-operation among industrial clusters in the most advanced regions in Europe in order to exchange experience and expertise and to develop policy recommendations that will benefit everyone and particularly the less advanced regions of Europe.
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To enable synergies to develop and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge from different disciplines for the development of joint programmes and the establishment of joint projects and business strategies between participant clusters.
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