Objective
TCBL uses Europe’s Textiles & Clothing (T&C) industry as test beds for evolutionary-driven co-design, dynamic optimisation and deployment of business models. It aims to increase the performance of a sector that, over the past two decades, upheld three main strategies to handle global competitive pressure: cost-oriented, product/service-oriented and productivity-oriented. TCBL provides a business experimentation framework for exploring variations on such strategies. The framework will be supported by Knowledge Spaces as a generative force and Business Services as an enabling force. A network of Business Labs will be set up, based on three key variations: Design Labs (e.g. creating emotionally-oriented immaterial value), Making Labs (e.g. converting skilled labour into material value), and Place Labs (e.g. generating spatial community- and socially- oriented value). Each of these Labs will explore the issues of cost, product/service and productivity enhancement in a transversal manner and from cross-disciplinary perspectives - including economic, anthropological, and engineering approaches as well as new business values such as environmental and social responsibility, sharing economy, social enterprising, customer-driven small series production (the focus of this call) and emergent or disruptive technologies. With these tools, and supported by an open Associates Programme, TCBL will carry out real-life experimentation and market deployment of a number of Supply Chain, Localisation, Business, Skill Management and Policy innovations involving no fewer than 160 workshops, laboratories and manufacturing plants at EU level with at least 15,000 T&C workers involved. In addition, 10 new innovative companies will be generated within the supply chain of T&C, enabling the diffusion and scaling up of results. By so doing, a knowledge based, transformational ecosystem will be developed, integrated into an open, yet structured platform environment.
Fields of science
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitycryptography
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
59100 Prato
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73770 Denkendorf
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10138 Torino
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16128 Genova
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MK7 6AA Milton Keynes
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3001 Leuven
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EC1V 3RS London
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38500 VOLOS
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1012 CR Amsterdam
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HD2 1YF Huddersfield
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2250 Ptuj
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90133 Palermo
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30175 Marghera Venezia
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10563 Athens
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3700-121 Sao Joao De Madeira
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MK14 5HE Milton Keynes
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OX3 OBP Oxford
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700179 Iasi
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59100 Prato
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1070 BRUXELLES
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08005 Barcelona
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1071 XH Amsterdam
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75013 Paris
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