WEAVING THE FUTURE BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH CAPACITY

WEAVING THE FUTURE BUILDING INSTITUTIONAL APPLIED RESEARCH CAPACITY INTELLITEC/INTELLITEX PROJECT Dr Jacek Mlynarek CTT Group ACCC - Ottawa, February 21, 2003 1

WEAVING THE FUTURE CTT GROUP Centre for Textile and Geosynthetic Technologies INNOVATION AND R&D CENTRE ON HIGH-TECHNICAL TEXTILE AND GEOSYNTHETIC MATERIALS 2

WEAVING THE FUTURE OUR MISSION TO FAVOR INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF TEXTILE AND PARA-TEXTILE (GEOSYNTHETIC) MATERIALS AND TO STIMULATE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT IN THE TEXTILE AND PARA-TEXTILE INDUSTRIES 3

WEAVING THE FUTURE ØPartenaire de l’industrie NOTRE CLIENT + QUALITÉ = NOS PRIORITÉS 4

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WEAVING THE FUTURE Ø 1982: Centre Protextile (5 employés) vers Ø 1987: Centre des technologies textiles Québec Inc. (CTT) (12 employées) 7

WEAVING THE FUTURE Ø 1988: SAGEOS Inc. (Centre des technologies géosynthétiques) en collaboration avec l ’École Polytechnique de Montréal (50/50) (Employés : 15) Mission : Le Centre des technologies textiles Québec Inc. s’est donné pour mission de favoriser le développement des matériaux textiles et géosynthétiques et de stimuler l’avancement technologique de l’industrie textile et géosynthétique 8

WEAVING THE FUTURE Ø 1992: Développement de SAGEOS Inc. en collaboration avec une compagnie de génie conseil (50%/50%) (18 employés) Ø 1995: Page WEB - Promotion des services Ø 1995: Bulletin d’information INFOGEOS Ø 1996 -1997: Achat de la Revue canadienne du textile (1883) (25 employés) Ø 1997 : Accréditation ISO 9000 9

WEAVING THE FUTURE Ø 1998: Réseau d’Échange et de Savoir-Faire (RESF) 1 0

WEAVING THE FUTURE 3+2 Ph. D 8 ingénieurs 20 technicien(ne)s Administration (9 personnes) 1 1

WEAVING THE FUTURE Ø Financement PMVT pour 5 ans de 1990 à 1995 Ø Financement PMVT pour 5 ans de 1996 à 2000 Ø Financement MRST (1997) Ø Financement FCI 1 (1998) Ø Financement FCI 2 (2001) 1 2

WEAVING THE FUTURE Ø 2002: Revue textile (CTJ) et bulletin INFOGEOS sur INTERNET : web. CTJ. com et infogeos. com Ø 2003 (? ) : Regroupement Intellitex Inc. de trois centres collégiaux : Groupe CTT + CETSO + CGQ afin de développer la fondation de la nouvelle technologie des textiles intelligents au Québec 1 3

WEAVING THE FUTURE OPENING NEW AVENUES FOR TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN CANADA : INTELLIGENT TEXTILES 1 4

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WEAVING THE FUTURE Phase 1 : Laying the foundation Phase 2 : Determining the trends Phase 3 : Identifying lead users Phase 4 : Developing the innovative products 1 6

WEAVING THE FUTURE INTELLIGENT TEXTILES Groupe CTT Group, Saint-Hyacinthe – 23 / 04 / 2002 Smart Technology for Textiles and Apparel - Past, Present and Future" Prof. Tao, Hongkong Polytechnical University Smart textiles : State-of-the-art and future developments Dr. Bruno Chevet, ITF France 1 7

WEAVING THE FUTURE Intelligent Textiles • Inclusion of flexible micro-chips in textiles • Inclusion of electronics components in fibres • Fusion of electronics components inside fibre’s structure • Short and long distance tele-communication issues 1 8

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WEAVING THE FUTURE Creating Capabilities to Innovate • • • Create new organizational structure within our Centre in which new technology can be developed Spin out an independent organization from the existing Centre and develop within it the new technology and values required to develop the new technological platform Acquire a different organization whose process and values closely match the requirements of the new task 2 0

WEAVING THE FUTURE Solution : Spin out an independent organization from the Centre and develop within it the new technology and values required to develop the new technological platform 2 1

WEAVING THE FUTURE TRANS-TECH NETWORK 28 CEGEP’S TECHNOLOGICAL CENTRES Partnership project : Intellitec/Intellitex CTT Group : Centre for textile and geosynthetic technologies CETSO : Centre de technologie des systèmes ordinés CGQ : Centre de géomatique du Québec 2 2

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WEAVING THE FUTURE ACKNOWEDGMENTS • ACCC • Directors of CETSO and CGQ • Staff of CTT Group • Ministry of Finances, Economy and Research of Quebec : Research, Science and Technology Mission and Indutry and Commerce Mission • Ministry of Education of Quebec 2 5

WEAVING THE FUTURE THANK YOU ! Dr Jacek Mlynarek CTT Group jmlynarek@ctt. ca Tel : 450 -778 -1870 Fax : 450 -778 -3901 2 6