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Research for a new generation of integrated innovation and knowledge management and development of appropriate web-based training methods, tools, and best practice demonstrators ( WEB-TEXPERT)

Objective

The textile and clothing industry is one of the pillars of the EU economy, representing 190 billion turnover and employing more than 2.2 million people. The textile industry is one of the longest and most complicated industrial chains in manufacturing industry. It is a fragmented and heterogeneous sector dominated by a majority of Small and Medium Size Enterprises fully represented by the lAGs proposers and the SME Core Group as represented in this proposal.
The main objective of this project is to establish web-based services on industrial associations' portals as learning and training platforms where SMEs can learn to apply knowledge-based, integrated methodologies for innovation management and to obtain appropriate knowledge sources taking a holistic view on the whole life- cycle of products and services. Innovation may relate to new products in combination with new services and to new processes (both, technical and organisational). When investigating the innovation process in a holistic approach, several aspects should be considered as early as possible as there are:
-Market opportunities and pricing, as well as investments and costs
-Technical requirements/functions/opportunities
-Environmental impacts of products and processes.
For optimal engineering decisions, these aspects have to be related to the whole life-cycle of the product. The product life-cycle comprises various processing stages. Textile SMEs are generally specialised on specific process stages or even process steps (various steps form one stage) of the product life-cycle. The European industry is dominated by such SMEs. The concentration on core competencies makes them on the one hand high potential innovative partners while on the other, many partners are involved in the development and production of the final product. This leads to complex networks that require sophisticated but appropriate coordination and networking approaches...

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Call for proposal

FP6-2002-SME-1
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COLLECTIVE -

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FORSCHUNGSKURATORIUM TEXTIL E.V.
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Frankfurter Strasse 10-14
ESCHBORN
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