Objective
The firework industry is growing at a tremendous rate. The global market is now worth 683million and sales in Europe alone have increased fivefold since 2000. However according to EU reports up to 45000 people are injured every year as a direct result of fireworks or firework misuse. The obvious solution to the problem is to ban the sale of fireworks however lengthy national and international studies have concluded that injuries actually escalate under these conditions due to the growth in more dangerous homemade and illegal black market fireworks. There is therefore a clear and urgent societal need to overcome this problem. This proposal will develop an innovative ultra-safe firework activation system to reduce these injuries by 84 at maximum market penetration preventing 37800 people being injured in Europe alone and saving 332 million in healthcare costs. The technology will mitigate all of the key injury modalities relating to firework usage. There is currently no technology available globally or under development that can offer these benefits. The total market potential for the new technology and its spin offs is 2 1bn with our penetrable market target being 107 million.
Our aims will be achieved by innovations in wireless communications technology RFID insert injection moulding novel materials science and advanced electronic sensor technology. The proposal is particularly relevant to the objectives of co-operative research since all the SMEs in the consortium including European firework manufacturing SMEs are under intense threat from low labour rate competition particularly from China. Whilst we recognise this project would revolutionise our sectors we need to access scientific and technological research skills to enable us to overcome the significant technical barriers. This Cooperative Research programme will enable us to utilize some of Europe s leading RTD organisations to ensure success...
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- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
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Call for proposal
FP6-2004-SME-COOP
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Funding Scheme
COOPERATIVE -Coordinator
MELTON MOWBRAY, LEICESTERSHIRE
United Kingdom