{"id":1044,"date":"2020-01-10T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T08:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gobeyond-innovation.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2020-01-10T08:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T08:20:39","slug":"social-innovation-future-tech-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovation1030.com\/de\/post\/social-innovation-future-tech-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Innovation: Future Tech Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy 2020 dear friends! Hope you had a great start into the new decade! To kick-start yet another innovative year, we decided to tell you about revolution happening in the fashion industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Today\u2019s $2.5T fashion industry can be hardly considered socially and environmentally responsible. According to\u00a0a 2018 UN report<\/a>, it is the second highest user of water worldwide, producing 20% of global water waste. The apparel industry\u00a0accounts for\u00a010% of global carbon emissions. The rise of affordable low-quality clothing has also led to increased textile waste, with 21 billion tons ending up in landfills annually. Not to mention that most of the clothes are made in places with weak labor law enforcement and human rights violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Innovation is supporting the industry shift towards a more circular, fair and responsible model of manufacturing and distribution. One disruptive movement aims to bring together fashion, technology and science to create a sustainable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future Tech Lab<\/a> founded by Miroslava Duma is a hybrid investment company, multinational accelerator, experimental laboratory and philanthropic organization on a mission to transform fashion and apparel industry. So far, FTL has assessed 150 startups and discovered or has in the pipeline 350 technologies. FTL supports several companies that we found particularly interesting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n