PolyU Tech Salon 2021 Webinar named “How is FashTECH disrupting the
industry landscape” was held by Institute for Entrepreneurship on 22nd
Jun 2021. Topics included creating
innovative enterprises, research focused on fashion technology and smart
wearable technology, advanced fibrous materials and industry insight sharing.
The first speaker was Mr. Peter Mok (Director, Institute for Entrepreneurship,
PolyU) and his topic entitled “Partnering for Success and Sustainability”. His talk included corporate innovation trends,
Hong Kong Innovation Scene, Opportunities for Textile Industry and Modes of
Knowledge Transfer, etc.
Firstly, he explained what Corporate Innovation (CI) is. It is the
ability to transfer from new idea to solution and create business result. Then
he briefed the three key findings of CI that included: i) Key to Survival, ii)
First Mover Wins the Competition and iii) Top-down Innovation Culture.
Then Mr. Peter Mok stated the obstacles of corporate innovation that was
Hard and Slow. He also mentioned the six
models of Corporate Innovation and they were R&D, Corporate VC or M&A,
Internal Incubator, Technology Partnership, Open Accelerator and Adoption of
Innovations.
After that he introduced Hong Kong innovation scene and discussed the
approved I&T fund project in 2019. The following diagram showed different government
support funding from 1999 to 2020.
Finally, Mr. Peter Mok discussed the opportunities for textile industry
and two key directions were Sustainability and Digitization. Lastly he introduced
four modes of knowledge transfer in PolyU including Collaborative Research,
Technology Licensing, Consultancy and Spin-offs & Startups.
The second speaker was Mr. Tenny Lam (Co-Founder & CEO, Grand Rise
Technology Limited) and he studied MBA in PolyU. He cooperated with PolyU professor to form
Grand Rise Technology since 2019.
And then Mr. Tenny Lam shared his experience such as how to cooperate
with professor, corporate innovation, etc.
He said if your goal is long term innovation. The partnership with university is a good way
to achieve this goal.
The third speaker was Prof. Jintu Fan (Head, Institute for
Entrepreneurship, PolyU) and his presentation named “PolyU Fashion Technology”. His talk related PolyU Fashion Technology Research
Focus and Research on Personal Thermal Management.
In the beginning, Prof. Fan introduced the Institute of Textiles and
Clothing and they had three directions included Fashion Business, Fashion &
Textile Design and Technology.
After that Prof. Fan discussed the clothing for personal thermal
management and human thermoregulation. The challenges were to ensure
breathability and to avoid bulkiness and weight, as well as cooling in clothing
especially in hot weather like Hong Kong.
Some instrumentation were introduced.
Finally Prof. Fan demonstrated some experience to show skin-like
fabric. In the inclined test, it was
observed that the fabric can avoid wetting from top side and water can
transport from back to top side!
The forth speaker was Prof. Zijian Zheng (Professor, Institute of
Textiles and Clothing (Fashion & Textiles Technology – Chemistry), PolyU) and
his topic was “Smart Wearable Technology”. Firstly, Prof. Zheng mentioned the definition
of Smart Wearable. Smart can sense and react to the environment conditions or
stimuli; have control, communication, storage and actuation capabilities.
Wearabel can be incorporated into clothing or worn on the body as accessories
or implants.
The development history and forecasting wearable technology was
showed. We expected it smarter and
smarter.
After that Prof. Zheng briefed the desirable wearable devices and its materials
properties expected to be lightweight, flexible, biocompatible, etc. Then he
introduced the electronic textiles to develop materials and processing that
enable new wearable devices. He named it
conductive textiles.
Lastly, Prof. Zheng introduced the three dimension of materials properties
for future stretchable electronics and they were Permeability, Stretchability
and Conductivity.
The last speaker was Dr. Fei Bin (Associate Professor, Institute of
Textiles and Clothing (Fashion & Textiles Design), PolyU) and his
presentation named “Advanced Fibrous Materials & Technology”. In the
beginning, he briefed the development trend of advanced fibrous material from
natural fiber to chemical fiber to functional fibers and then to smart fibers.
There are five types of advanced fibers for textiles and Dr. Bin focused
on the first two types in this talk and they were temperature regulating fibers
and moisture control fibers.
The first type is temperature regulating fibers. Dr. Bin briefed the commercial
products such as Thermolite®, Outlast® and Celliant® and then he introduced his
cooling fiber named IcypetTM.
The second type is moisture control fibers. He also introduced GelisTM which
is water absorbent fiber in his lab. And his next step is to construct
functional yarns and textiles for surgical/cosmetic application (e.g. wound
dressing, surgical suture, sanitary napkin).
Reference:
PolyU Institute for Entrepreneurship - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/ife/corp/en/index.php
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