Focus Incubation Centre in Technical Textiles (FICTT)

Initiative funded by Ministry of Textiles, Gol to serve as a translational  platform. To work towards disruptive innovation in the field of technical textiles 

The Textile Focus Incubation Center (TFIC) consists of two centres, Focus Incubation Centre in Technical Textiles - IIT Bombay (FICTT) and Advanced Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Development Center (AFRPCDC) funded by Textile ministry GoI. The incubation center serves as the translational platform for the best minds from academia, R&D Labs, industries to collaborate and collectively work towards disruptive innovation in the field of technical textiles. The incubation center is envisaged as an IIT Bombay led Team India consortium serving as the crucible for amalgamation of challenging problems and disruptive ideas leading to innovative technical textile products and components/machinery to make these products. The incubation center functions in a hub-and-spoke model catalyzing synergetic interactions among the various stakeholders. Leveraging the advances in IT, the incubation center will host a web portal for such interactions leading to crowdsourcing of ideas and innovation on the cloud

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