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13 January 2016

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Interview: Climate-KIC — building demand for eco-innovation

Climate-KIC, supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), is the European Union’s largest public private partnership addressing climate change through innovation. It coordinates programmes across Europe involving higher education institutions, research labs and companies. One programme, the Climate Market Accelerator, which ran until the end of 2014, was an experimental initiative to bring together suppliers and users of eco-innovation. The Climate Market Accelerator has since been integrated into other Climate-KIC programmes. Aled Thomas, Interim UK Director, discussed the objectives and some of the lessons from the Climate Market Accelerator.

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Small companies blaze a trail for modular design and longer gadget lifespans

There are signs that the trend towards eco-innovative modular design of electronic gadgets is increasing, to the extent that modular design is starting to become mainstream. Today, the design of most mobile phones, computers and other devices means they are not easily repairable; if one component goes wrong, the only options for device owners might be to return them to the manufacturer for time-consuming repair, or to discard them, even though most of the device's components continue to function perfectly well. This situation seems to be starting to change.

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Textile sustainable innovation award goes to new denim treatment technology

A garment-finishing technology developed by an Italian company has scooped the first ever Industry Excellence Award for sustainable innovation from ITMA (Internationale Textilmaschinen Ausstellung), the world's largest exhibition dedicated to textile machinery, held every four years under the auspices of CEMATEX (Comité Européen des Constructeurs de Machines Textiles).

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