Open AccessTexmatrix – The knowledge matrix for innovation applied to textile enterprises
Author(s) -
Rădulescu Ion-Răzvan,
Almeida Luis,
Roberto Vannucci,
Mirela Blaga,
Dufkova Petra,
Zoran Stjepanovič
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
industria textilă
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1222-5347
DOI - 10.35530/it.070.02.1648
Subject(s) - benchmarking , swot analysis , erasmus+ , knowledge management , business , textile , engineering management , engineering , computer science , marketing , art , archaeology , the renaissance , history , art history
Several enterprise management instruments are used to support innovation. The Knowledge Matrix for Innovation (KMI)quantifies intangible assets of an enterprise in order to keep an improved inventory, gap bridges and eliminateredundancies. The KMI was defined and implemented for textile enterprises within the Erasmus+ project TexMatrix, inorder to respond to their innovation needs: the KMI was transformed to a Benchmarking questionnaire, a Benchmarkingstudy was conducted with 64 European textile enterprises and Reports on European, national and individual enterpriselevel were created. The needs of the enterprises were drawn from a SWOT analysis of the European Benchmarkingreport: 35 project solutions provided by the consortium partners were assigned to six main Opportunities of SWOTanalysis. These project solutions contain results in fields like: research, market and training. The solutions altogetherwith three educational modules for supporting innovation were implemented within an e-learning course in five Europeanlanguages of the project’s partners: English, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Slovenian. The Moodle e-learningcourse includes various resources (Book, Video) and activities (Quiz, Glossary, Chat and Forum).Training wasperformed for 199 textile professionals within 8 multiplier events and for 137 young students within 5 blended courses.Textile professionals expressed their interest in implementing some of the project solutions. All created OpenEducational Resources are available with free access on the project’s e-learning platform: www.advan2tex.eu/portal/.