INDUSTRY SECTORS REPRESENTED

INDUSTRY
Application-based industries:

Clothing retail and supply, Sportswear, Medical / healthcare products, Electronics products, Computer products, Automotive, Interior / architecture, Construction
Speedo, UK
Arup Foresight and Innovation
HP Labs
HP Labs Mobile Bristol

Textiles:
Technical textile producers, Textile consultants, Electro-conductive textile producers
Mediatex
Technitex
Peratech
Reima

Materials:
Defence / Aerospace, Medical Materials, Molecular electronics
QinetiQ Nanomaterials

Electronics:
Semi-conductors
The Appliance Studio

Software systems & networks:
Software systems, Wireless communications/networks
Symbian

Design:
Product/industrial design

Future forecasting/intelligence:
Markets / consumption, Societal, Work

Laundering:
Textile care
Unilever R&D Port Sunlight

INDUSTRY ORGANISATIONS/ASSOCIATION

Institute of Nanotechnology
Avantex Messe Frankfurt
Techtextil Messe Frankfurt

GOVT. / PUBLIC BODIES

ACADEME/RESEARCH
Textiles & fibres:
Technical textiles

Polymeric materials:
Molecular electronics, Polymer engineering, Polymer Materials
The Polymer Science Centre, The University of Reading

Processing & fabrication:
Biomimetics, Nanotechnology, Direct writing

Computing:
Computing science, Human-computer interaction
Equator IRC

Engineering:
Mechanical Engineering

Software systems & networks:
Informatics
School of Informatics, University of Bradford

Social science:
Societal futures

Business & economy:
Emerging Technology Markets, Weightless Economics

Social psychology:
User cognition/HCI

Design:
Fashion, Textiles, Interior, Architecture, Environment
Bartlett, UCL
Space Syntax
Fashion Online

Medical & sports engineering

Sustainability

Materials
Department of Materials, Queen Mary University of London
Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in Biomedical Materials, Queen Mary University of London


MEDIA

Fashion & textiles

Science / Technology

Technical textiles

Business & economics

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