Smart Innovation Networks

In AVALON’s networks of industrial companies, research centers and service providers, new organizational paradigms to enable effective communication, cooperation and col-laboration in all phases of the extended cross-sectoral value chain (textile sector, material suppliers, service providers, application sectors and end-users), appropriate innovation methods, as well as tools for the integration of partners have been developed and implemented. In this way, it has been possible to establish Smart (Textile) Networks for cross-sectoral innovation in which companies are able to flexibly collaborate with partners on the levels of organisation, ICT and knowledge.