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TCBL IN ACTION

TCBL 646133 –ANNEX II TO D6.8 31st March 2018

INTRODUCTION TCBL is an EU funded project aiming to revolutionise the Textile and Clothing (T&C) industry by grasping the emergent business model innovation opportunities from scientific & technological advances, new consumer trends and individual/collective creativity. The project started in July 2015 and has managed to create an Open Platform and a European ecosystem of T&C actors (labs, T&C enterprises, advisors, designers, service providers etc.) sharing common goals and willing to build new business interactions.

This Guidebook is intended as a useful introduction to anyone potentially interested in participating in the TCBL ecosystem, to show how all of the different elements come together in a coherent way. We explore TCBL in Action through the eyes of six Personas, all based on one or more real cases we have encountered in the first two years of experimentation in TCBL. These Personas embark on journeys through the TCBL ecosystem in which they encounter roles, activities and services as a way of illustrating the different possibilities of interaction.

While activities and services mentioned are all fully functional or in the advanced stage of planning, references to labs and businesses are anonymised.

Their journeys lead our Personas to address their needs in new ways and explore new business models that reconcile their values with their business interests. Many of these end points are also developments already happening within the TCBL ecosystem, and their further development will be the focus of project activities in the coming months.

STRUCTURE OF THIS G UIDEBOOK In the following sections, we present our six Personas and how they have joined up to TCBL, and then we follow them in an imaginary journey through the TCBL ecosystem that could in part reflect what you might experience as a TCBL Associate. You may identify closely with one of the Personas we have chosen to illustrate how the different actions and services interact, or you may imagine a different journey, inspired by the stories that follow. Each Persona tells a different story, and for each of the roles in TCBL there can be many other stories and paths; it is up to you to find your own.

To help you in your navigation and to underline how the different roles interact, we colour code the TCBL roles (including those assumed by the Personas), activities and services as follows: TCBL Community activities and services Business Labs and Lab Projects Associate Enterprises and Business Pilots Service Providers and the TCBL Open Platform Associate Advisors and Knowledge Spaces Startups The most important (and currently active) services mentioned are highlighted with screenshots that you can click on to go to the website in question.1 In addition, all the roles, activities and services mentioned in the following sections are listed in an Annex in the final pages of this document, which you can refer to for definitions.

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Some of the links will require that you log in to the website in question, though they all use our Login with TCBL, so you only need to register once. If you haven’t already done so, visit: https://tcblsso.ilabt.iminds.be/usermanager/user/register to sign up.

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1. VERONIKA: A NATURAL FIBRES JOURNEY Veronika works in a Swedish textile research institute funded by the national government but also supported by some of the main local industrial players with whom they collaborate. They’ve traditionally worked on technical and synthetic fibres but have recently looked more closely at technologies to separate and recycle fibres as well as new combinations with natural fibres.

Veronika’s research institute collaborates with other institutes in European funded research projects, but they have difficulty in exploring the potential uses of some of their innovations in real market settings, since their industrial collaborations are very specific, confidential, and limited to the single enterprise.

Veronika discovers the network of TCBL Business Labs through a research conference in Brussels and convinces her institute to join the network with the support of some Making labs in Amsterdam, Athens and Milan. She’s hoping to extend her lab’s collaboration possibilities and also work with a broader set of companies active across borders as part of the TCBL Community.

Veronica’s laboratory has developed a technique for separating mixed fibres and filtering out and recycling the cotton. At #TCBL_2017 in

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Athens, she meets some TCBL Associate Enterprises involved in the Natural Fibres Business Pilot and they explore together the business potential of mixing the recycled cotton with silk to produce a new eco-fibre.

They also see that by using the RemoKey service they could clearly certify the percentage of recycled cotton in the finished produce. For the silk, some Associate Enterprises involved in silk production are brought in and Natural Fibres Business Pilot

use the Provenance blockchain service to embed the narratives of traditional silk making into the product’s history.

The Associate Enterprise doing the yarn spinning are thus convinced and begin producing some first samples. They then take these to a nearby Making Lab to test the properties and resistance of the new fibre and find the right mix, and then work with the Waste Not Lab Project in Ljubljana for Lab Projects

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design ideas that could highlight the interesting new properties of surface and colour.

Eco-friendly Production Guidebook

The Associate Enterprises interested in developing the scenarios work with Associate Advisors in fashion trends to highlight the market value of this new natural eco-fibre. While searching for more information, they discover a Guidebook on the EcoProduction Business Pilot to identify the most environmentally friendly dyeing and finishing processes available, listed on issuu.com.

The different companies collaborating on the new fibre use the Thela platform to transparently manage the quality and compliance of the entire supply chain.

While several Associate Enterprises show a great interest in using the new fabric, the Second Life Lab Project dedicate a networked webinar to its potential for circular fashion design. The results will be exhibited at #TCBL_2018 at a Place Lab in the hosting city. #TCBL_2018 conference web page

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2. GUIDO: A TEXTILE MANUFACTURER’S JOURNEY Guido is the fifth generation to run the family textile mill in his local industrial district in Italy, which prides itself on the quality of the yarns used and the original designs coming from a close collaboration with their clients. Their market has shifted over the last years, with fast fashion brands requiring significant quantities over ever shorter timeframes. The problem is, they are facing increasing pressure on costs as well.

Guido is beginning to worry about his long-term prospects and thus looking to diversify his business model. In particular, he’s seeing potential in the growing number of on-line retailers proposing classic-modern designs at reasonable prices. This market segment is more in line with the tradition of Guido’s company, but the requirements for shorter production runs risks upsetting his current production schedules.

Guido learns of the Short Runs Business Pilot through a post on the TCBL Facebook Page leading to the TCBL website and applies to the 2018 Call for Associate Enterprises. In the Short Runs Business Pilot, he is able to connect with other businesses facing similar problems and learns how to downscale production runs while managing his supply chain efficiently and still being able to meet the larger orders.

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He also connects with other Associate Enterprises in garment production interested in moderate quantities of his higher-quality fabrics.

They ask him however to demonstrate his compliance with environmental and social standards on the Thela platform. There, he discovers that he can also use the platform to transparently manage his suppliers downstream, Thela Platform

so he gets his providers of wools, dyes and other supplies to sign up as well. One of his dye suppliers is also a TCBL Associate Enterprise and tells him about their participation in the Eco-friendly Production Business Pilot. Guido also joins up to this to apply his ecological principles across his whole supply chain.

In parallel, Guido sees the business opportunity in promoting the Short Runs market for quality clothing. He decides to open

Short Runs Business Pilot

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up a local production hub and invite local designers to provide him with models to be sold in an on-line marketplace featuring his fabrics and highlighting their environmental friendliness.

As he looks for a production facility, he reads a TCBL_zine article about other designerproducers in the Workplace Design Lab Project, experimenting with Team Production methods. He adopts this approach for the factory layout, as it helps him to flexibly adapt production for short runs and also promotes learning to develop his human resources.

For the designs, he uses the Open Source Fashion Labs Project to select projects from young and emergent designers. In addition, he lists his production centre on the Sqetch Lab Projects matchmaking platform, and several brand designers there connect with him for production of their own models, which he also features on his platform.

The market for his family’s textiles is gradually shifting, and Guido can balance the larger scale orders with the Short Runs feeding his production hub, which by now makes for over half of his turnover. At #TCBL_2018 he learns of the Reverse Resources service, which allows him to source production leftovers. He promotes this as an option for the Open Source Fashion participants and also re-sells production leftovers from his own factory and production hub through the platform. This gives Guido greater flexibility in sourcing and offers his designers a stimulating option, while maintaining the brand value of his family business.

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Sqetch platform

3. JOANNA: A FASHION BRAND’S JOURNEY Joanna grew up in a city in southern Poland where she often helped her mother and others in her village to sew and repair clothes. Wishing to make a career in fashion, she went to a well-known Design Academy in Warsaw where she learned how to design a collection, plus some rudimental notions of patternmaking and assembly.

When she came to her final thesis, she realised she wasn’t able to sew her design herself, since what she learned at school was not enough.

She thus returned to her home town and enlisted the help of the local seamstresses she knew as a young girl and graduated with great success with.

Not wanting to end up with one of the big fashion brands, she opened up her own business as a designer-producer, drawing on the knowledge of the people from her home town. While she was able to establish her own brand locally, she increasingly found difficulty in finding people to sew, as her original circle of seamstresses became too old to continue working.

Joanna is then contacted by a local TCBL Place Lab to participate in one of their regular TCBL Café events. She is asked to bring the patterns of some of her old models and provide assistance to the participants in making her designs. There she finds an exciting atmosphere of beginners and experts happy to collaborate in making her designs. She identifies two bright students in the group, whom she eventually hires to work in her laboratory.

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She soon signs up as a TCBL Associate Enterprise and is invited by other TCBL Place Labs in Europe to participate in a programme of visiting designers for TCBL Cafés, beginning to make a name for her brand throughout Europe. Through support from the Independents Business Pilot, she learns how to do business in niche on-line marketplaces, and there she sees the market Independents Business Pilot

advantage of other brands leveraging customers’ increased environmental and social awareness.

Exploring the TCBL Open Platform, she finds the Circular Fashion service supporting her desire to move in that direction, offering business advice as well as an ID label for her clothing.

She is asked to contribute to a TCBL_Zine Special Issue on Circular Economy, where she learns of the Natural Fibres Business Pilot.

TCBL_zine platform

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She contacts other participating Associate Enterprises, then joins up to the value chain guaranteeing the process starting from the cotton fields and telling the story of the cotton process with the Provenance blockchain based service. She also decides to use fabrics containing recycled cotton, using the RemoKey service to certify the percentage of recycled cotton in the final products.

All of this leads to increased business and a need to expand her production capacity. By RemoKey platform continuing to work with the TCBL CafĂŠs she becomes able to source skilled sewers as the need arises, but she also needs to expand her facilities from the small laboratory she started with. Through other Associate Enterprises in the Independents Business Pilot, she learns of the Workplace Design Lab Project and borrows the team-oriented layout for her new production facility.

Adopting the team approach allows her to incorporate new workers from the TCBL CafĂŠ with ease, as she expands production to meet demand. She is also starting to draw on shared production capacity with other similar production hubs across the network of TCBL Making Labs.

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4. EVA, A SERVICE PROVIDER’S JOURNEY Eva works for a major ICT company in Thessaloniki specialised in big data and analytics. In a recent Horizon 2020 research project, she has developed a service capable of analysing fashion trends (colours, prints, etc.) by harvesting publicly posted photos on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram.

As the project is nearing an end, she needs to give her company ideas for a commercially viable exploitation of the project’s research results and is searching among fashion trends services. Unfortunately, she discovers they tend to be a rather secretive business and not willing to collaborate with outside service providers to innovate their offer.

In addition, her company is raising growing concerns about the privacy implications of harvesting data from social networks, especially in view of recent scandals and the European GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) entering into force.

In her research, Eva comes across the TCBL Trends Lab Project, which offers a newslettertype report based on information from subscriptions to major trends services, filtered by the environmental, social and operational values of the TCBL Community. She is fascinated by the offer of an alternative market for value-based trends services.

She looks at the terms and operational conditions of the TCBL Open Platform, and

TCBL Values

sees the guarantees offered by the TCBL Data Policy and its application in the TCBL Single Sign On facilities as going beyond his expectations for GDPR compliance. She also sees how she can post a brainstorming session on the WAVE idea generation platform and asks the community to discuss possible business models for her service following the Open Innovation approach.

WAVE platform

Her discussions with the TCBL Community point to the potential of linking Eva’s service with the Digital Heritage Business Pilot, which is digitising textile archives of some of the major textile producers. The images of textile designs over the centuries, coming both from the archives of participating Associate Enterprises as well as on-line archives such as Europeana Fashion, are fed into Eva’s database. The same functions developed in her EU project could then be used to associate

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elements from the historical collections with fashion trends, colour schemes, etc. that recur over time.

This in turn allows for an enhancement of the TCBL Trends service that could indicate historical patterns or designs to link to emergent fashion trends, as an additional inspiration for designers and publicity for the textile producers owning the original collection. In addition, designers could directly browse the archive databases using Eva’s trend patterns as search criteria: i.e. find a print using this colour palette and associated with flowing fabrics such as silk.

The TCBL Community provides the ideal environment in which to test this service concept Fabricademy website and its market viability. Thus, she contacts the Fabricademy Labs Project in order to run a paid masterclass on linking trends to heritage, and the Circular Fashion service studies how to link the service with durable design principles.

This positive feedback convinces Eva’s company to incorporate her service into the TCBL Trends Lab Project and offer the combined service on the TCBL Open Platform. The service is now being adopted by textile manufacturers in the Short Runs Circular Fashion platform Business Pilot to anticipate demand for revivals from their fabrics collections, as well as Associate Enterprises in the Independents Business Pilot, to inspire new designs.

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5. JACQUES, A FASHION TEACHER’S JOURNEY Jacques teaches fashion at a well-known Design Academy in Lyon but is increasingly frustrated at how the industry is evolving. Most of his students dream of becoming leading designers in one of the famous fashion houses, although very few make it beyond the first levels of employment after graduation.

In addition, his efforts to introduce issues of environmental and social responsibility to his students seem to encounter a good degree of interest but little impact on their employability, despite the good intentions expressed by industry leaders. He discusses these issues with the students in his class and they decide to take some initiative to see what alternative paths might be possible.

One of Jacques’s students is also attending courses at the Fabricademy Lab Project held by the local TCBL Design Lab. Jacques visits a session and is then invited to hold a distributed lab workshop on social sustainability.

For this, he invites some leading international scholars on the various issues involved: labour rights, immigration, organisation of production, skills development and globalisation. This leads to the publication of a TCBL_zine Special Issue on Decent Work in the T&C Industry.

Design Lab profile page

The Special Issue is a great success, not only with the TCBL Community but also with his Design Academy. Together with other TCBL Advisors and Enterprises in the area, he therefore decides to open a TCBL Place Lab specifically designed to mix the cultural impulses from migrant communities in Paris. A regular series of Lab Webinars brings in the added stimulus of on-going services and activities in TCBL: • The TCBL Trends Lab Project discusses the influence of Asian designers.

The BioShades Business Pilot explores working with rural communities.

The Digital Heritage Business Pilot analyses different cultural influences in major textile archives.

BioShades Business Pilot

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In parallel, Jacques’s students work with the participants in the TCBL Place Lab to codesign new collections based on these cultural influences and publish them as videos on the TCBL YouTube channel as well as with the Open Source Fashion Lab Project, using digital patternmaking for distance collaboration.

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Jacques then organises a cycle of TCBL CafÊs at his Place Lab to invite local residents to come and mix with the Academy’s students, share knowledge of sewing and assembly methods, and make clothing using the designs. The good reception of this initiative leads the participants to think of setting up a local production centre and selling the items over the web.

Place Lab profile page

The TCBL Principles resonate with the Lab participants and shape their efforts to co-design the business model and working principles as

well as the authorship rights and cost structure for the finished products. Collaboration with the Circular Fashion service also ensures the environmental sustainability of the whole process, while fabrics and designs are sourced from a range of TCBL Associate Enterprises.

With the full business plan in hand, Jacques contacts the Associate Service Provider LITA.co to look for impact investment funding and launch the initiative as a social enterprise.

The crowdfunding campaign is successful, and the initiative is launched to the market.

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LITA.co platform

6. RICHARD, A STARTUP JOURNEY Richard is a young app developer in London working for a large media company in the Silicon Roundabout area. He’s well paid but would like to break off on his own, so he’s a regular participant at Startup Weekend competitions.

A colleague at the office tells Richard about a Fashion Tech event he had just been to and some “clothes as a service” platforms (short-term sharing rather than buying clothes) he saw there. Richard thinks to combine that with a repairing angle, in line with the trend of Repair Cafés he’d seen opening up in London.

He takes his app idea – “Share and Repair” – to the next Startup Weekend, and wins a cash prize plus placement in a well-known incubation service. Richard is ready to quit his main job and focus on developing his Startup, but he has a problem: he knows practically nothing about making (much less repairing) clothes.

Richard’s web searches lead him to discover the TCBL Second Life Lab Project, involving a network of TCBL Make Labs developing shared techniques for making new clothes starting from used garments. This takes him to the Labs Platform, where he also discovers the Waste Not Lab Project and its local clothes sharing initiatives. Richard sees the TCBL Community as an ideal starting point to create the user base for his app and capture their collective knowledge as part of the service.

He then discovers the TCBL website and learns about the Startups Programme.

Although he missed the last call in 2018, he sees

Call for Startups

WAVE project

the list of TCBL Business Labs that are still connecting startups to the TCBL Community.

He lists Share and Repair as a Project on the WAVE Platform and is “adopted” by a Making Lab in the London area.

They suggest he further reinforces the community dimension, connecting his proposed

app with sustainable innovation practices. This would mean linking the app with the network of TCBL Business Labs as the brick-and-mortar reference centres for his service.

This gives Richard the stimulus to build a working prototype, which he incorporates into the TCBL Open Platform with the Login with TCBL Service, downloading software and documentation from the TCBL Github Space.

Richard also implements some Gamification

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features so that interested participants can compete on extending the lifespan of their clothes, adding a new dimension of collaboration to the app.

Lab events

This leads Richard to publish relevant events held by TCBL Business Labs on the Share and Repair app to give new ideas about upscaling and to help build a community sharing approach, rather than the doorstep delivery service he originally envisaged. An event with the BioShades Lab Project has participants

grow their own bacteria to dye used jeans.

Another one using the Reverse Resources service has participants incorporate production fabric leftovers into their upscaling designs.

Other TCBL Associate Enterprises show interest in participating in the service, for instance offering a network of local laundry services to regenerate second hand items.

With the app and service ready for launch, Richard proposes Share and Repair to the LITA.co Investment Service, which also helps him develop the business plan and marketing strategy to launch the service across Europe.

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Reverse Resources platform

ANNEX: ROLES, ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES IN TCBL In this Guidebook, we have shown the six Personas interacting with the same roles, activities and services that you can encounter in your interactions with the TCBL ecosystem. These vary from on-line web services to on-going projects and experiments, and the ones mentioned (other than the six proposed by the Personas) are all currently operational or in the advanced planning stage.

Below is a listing of all the elements mentioned in the six journeys, with links where available.

The colour coding is the same as explained at the outset and used for the identification of the roles assumed by the Personas as well as the activities and services they interact with. All references to Labs, Enterprises and Advisors have been anonymised, although the listing of all Associates can be found on the TCBL website (click here).

TCBL COMMUNITY The first element is of course the TCBL Community as a whole, bringing together all the participating roles.

TCBL Community, the set of all TCBL Associates CORE ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES The TCBL community shares a set of core activities and services.

TCBL website, the community’s home environment (click here) TCBL Facebook page: the community’s main social space (click here) #TCBL yearly conference with its different modules for interaction (click here)

BUSINESS LABS The main innovation driver in TCBL comes from the network of Business Labs.

Business Labs: the network as a whole; each lab includes one or more of the three types of approach Design Labs: includes those labs focusing on the design approach Making Labs: includes those labs that explore machinery, materials and processes Place Labs: includes Labs Platform: the platform at labs.tcbl.eu specifically designed for the labs community (click here) Labs Webinars: webinars or otherwise multi-site workshops and events across the Labs network LAB PROJECTS Lab Projects are collaborative activities across the network of Business Labs, normally involving the active engagement of Enterprises and Advisors. The following lists the (true) projects ongoing or being launched (on-going projects are listed with links) within the TCBL network that our Personas have (fictitiously) encountered.

Fabricademy: open learning environments for design skills for new technologies and materials (click here) TCBL Trends: selections and abstracts from fashion trends services

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Open Source Fashion: on-line marketplace of designs and designers to improve access to new talents (click here) Waste not: Circular Economy practices in T&C production TCBL Café: sewing cafés for skills development and upgrading territorial capacity (click here) Workplace Design: team assembly for garment production and alternative workplace layouts Second Life: giving old clothes a second life

ASSOCIATE ENTERPRISES The main drivers of industrial transformations using innovation in TCBL are the Textile and Clothing businesses in the TCBL Community.

Associate Enterprises: businesses who have qualified for the label by demonstrating their role in T&C value chains, their desire to innovate within TCBL, and their adherence to the TCBL principles in one of the Calls for Associate Enterprises. (click here) BUSINESS PILOTS Business Pilots are born of “business cases” or concrete needs expressed by Associate Enterprises. They explore specific aspects of the T&C industry in transformation, and generally bring together a value chain of several enterprises to explore new business models.

Natural Fibres: rebuilding value chains for natural fibres (including linen, silk, hemp, etc.) (click here) Eco-Production: ways to reduce chemical usage, energy consumption, and environmental impact (click here) Short runs: partnerships and services to support short runs for sustainable fashion (click here) Independents: empowering and networking independent designers and producers (click here) BioShades: developing the use of bacteria based dyes as an industrial option (click here) Digital heritage: digitisation of textile and clothing archives and collections as a source of design inspiration (click here)

ASSOCIATE ADVISORS This is the group of international actors that help transform the knowledge in TCBL into action, and are the animating forces behind most of the interactions mentioned in this Guidebook.

Associate Advisors: consultants, researchers, business experts, etc. who have demonstrated a concrete contribution to innovation activities in TCBL and have also contributed to share their experiences through the TCBL Knowledge Spaces.

KNOWLEDGE SPACES TCBL_zine: the main platform for gathering selected articles, publications and videos and organising them for easy consultation (click here) TCBL_zine Special Issues: thematic _zine issues bringing together contributions from experts on a specific topic.

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TCBL Guidebooks published on the issuu.com platform (click here) TCBL YouTube Channel with videos for the #TCBL conferences, tutorials, etc. (click here)

TCBL OPEN PLATFORM This area includes the technical infrastructure supporting the interconnection among the TCBL on-line services.

TCBL Open Platform: the general TCBL service environment TCBL Github Space: the repository for code and documentation (click here) TCBL Data Policy: providing minimum standards for all Associate Services Single Sign On (or Login with TCBL): the shared authentication service connecting all TCBL platform components (click here) Gamification: the cross-platform activity log and gamification services in the Open Platform CORE TCBL SERVICES The following core services are offered by TCBL project partners and are all accessible through TCBL Single Sign On. Thela: supply chain management service (click here) Sqetch: brand-producer matchmaking service (click here) Wave: open innovation idea development platform (click here) ASSOCIATE SERVICE PROVIDERS The following services are offered by external providers collaborating with TCBL. Many are in the process of incorporating the Single Sign On. Circular Fashion: a label ID for circular design practice (click here) RemoKey: tracking recycled cotton through supply chains (click here) Reverse Resources: marketplace for textile production leftovers (click here) Provenance: blockchain for supply chain transparency (click here) LITA.co: impact investing platform for funding sustainable T&C startups (click here)

STARTUPS Although not formally having a role in the TCBL ecosystem, two Calls were launched for Startups in order to explore the potential for development of new business ideas.

Startups Calls were thus launched in 2017 and 2018 (click here) Promotion and incubation of Startups has now been absorbed as a relevant activity of some Business Labs and is supported by some Associate Service Providers such as LITA.co.

W HAT’S NEXT To stay tuned and be informed of the upcoming Calls or new key entries into the TCBL ecosystem or the announcement of the new #TCBL2019 conference venue, subscribe to the TCBL newsletter: if you’ve already signed up, click here; if not, register here and tick the box to subscribe.

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DOCUMENT INFORMATION This document is Annex II to TCBL Deliverable 6.8, “Technical Ecosystem Framework version 2”. Author: Jesse Marsh (Prato).

REVISION Version 1 Version 2

DATE 16.04.2018 30.04.2018

AUTHOR Jesse Marsh Jesse Marsh

ORGANISATION

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Prato Prato

Draft for review Final draft with reviewers’ comments

STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise.

Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both.

COPYRIGHT This work is licensed by the TCBL Consortium under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, 2015-2016. For details, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ The TCBL Consortium, consisting of: Municipality of Prato (PRATO) Italy; German Institutes for Textile and Fiber Research - Center for Management Research (DITF) Germany; Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB) Italy; Skillaware (SKILL) Italy; The Oxford Brookes University (OBU) UK; imec (IMEC) Belgium; Tavistock Institute (TAVI) UK; Materials Industrial Research & Technology Center S.A. (MIRTEC) Greece; Waag Society (WAAG) Netherlands; Huddersfield & District Textile Training Company Ltd (TCOE) UK; eZavod (eZAVOD) Slovenia; Consorzio Arca (ARCA) Italy; Unioncamere del Veneto (UCV) Italy; Hellenic Clothing Industry Association (HCIA) Greece; Sanjotec - Centro Empresarial e Tecnológico (SANJO) Portugal; Clear Communication Associates Ltd (CCA) UK, Reginnova NE (REGINNOVA), Romania; Centexbel (CTB), Belgium; Institut Français de la Mode (IFM), France; FabTextiles, (FABTEXTILES), Spain; Cleviria (CLEVIRIA), Italy; and Sqetch (SQETCH), Netherlands.

DISCLAIMER All information included in this document is subject to change without notice. The Members of the TCBL Consortium make no warranty of any kind with regard to this document, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The Members of the TCBL Consortium shall not be held liable for errors contained herein or direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The TCBL project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Programme for research, technology development, and innovation under Grant Agreement n.646133.

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