This webinar brought to you by Innovate UK, UKRI India, the Department for International Trade (DIT), delivered by KTN Global Alliance Global Expert Missions addressed sustainability challenges in the fashion industry with an open-audience session showcasing companies in both the UK and India leading in this sector.

1. ktn-uk.org/global-alliance
02 August 2021
09.00 – 10.00 BST
13.30 – 14.30 IST
Online Global Expert Mission
Sustainable Fashion in India
Briefing Session

2. Introductions

3. Global Business
Innovation
Programmes
Group of 6-8 experts
scoping opportunities for
UK businesses in specific
countries and technology
and sector areas.
Three stages –
• Scoping visit
• Dissemination report
• Dissemination
workshop
Cohort of c.15 innovative
high growth businesses
exploring opportunities and
building collaborations and
partnerships in specific
countries and technology
and sector areas.
Programme over 9-12
months with 3 phases –
• Get ready
• Visit the market
• Exploit the opportunity
Cohort of c.6-8 innovative high
growth businesses building
long-term relationships and
foundations for future market
growth.
In Canada, USA, Singapore
and India in specific technology
and sector areas.
Programme over 12-18 months
with 4 phases –
• Prepare
• Participate
• Pursue – 3-6 months in an
incubator in country
• Exploit
Collaborative R&D&I grant
funding programmes to
support projects often up to
36 months in specific
technology and sector areas
Programmes can be bilateral
or multilateral, such as
through EUREKA funded by
Innovate UK and through
helping businesses
(including through Innovate
UK EDGE and KTN and
other organisations access
support through Horizon
Europe
Global Business
Innovation
Programmes
Global
Incubator
Programmes
Bilateral and
multilateral
R&D&I funding
programmes and
access to Horizon
Europe
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Bring together in a workshop,
UK businesses, research
organisations and other
stakeholders in specific
technology and sector areas to
help identify countries offering
the best prospects for
partnership and collaboration
with the UK.
The outputs of the workshop(s)
will help to narrow down where
Global Expert Missions could be
used to scope opportunities in
more detail.
Existing Innovate UK Global Tools
Global
Expert
Missions
Global
Scoping
Workshops

4. https://ktn-uk.org/news/global-expert-mission-reports/
Global Expert Missions – to date (outcomes valued at £65m)
Australia
Agri-tech - 2019
Canada
AI - 2017
Advanced Manufacturing - 2017
Quantum Technologies - 2018
Advanced Therapies - 2020
China
Offshore Wind - 2018
Precision Medicine and Vaccines - 2018
Healthy Ageing - 2019
Germany
Antimicrobial Resistance - 2019
Artificial Intelligence - 2021
New Zealand
Agritech - 2019
South Korea
ICT - 2018
Advanced Materials - 2018
Smart Cities – 2019
Immersive Tech - 2021
Singapore
Cyber Security - 2019
USA
Offshore Wind - 2018
Digital Health - 2018
Composites - 2018
Quantum Technologies – 2019
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in
Extreme Environments - 2019
Cyber Security - 2019
India
Immersive Media – 2018
Sustainable Fashion - 2021
Israel
Bioinformatics - 2018
Cyber Security - 2018
Advanced Materials - 2018
Precision Medicine – 2020
Japan
Transforming Construction - 2019
Japan and South Korea
Digital Health and Medtech - 2019
Floating Offshore Wind - 2019

5. Programme Overview
Date Time (BST) Activity Info
Mon 2nd August 09.00 – 10.30
Briefing Session (UK delegates only)
Zoom Meeting
Tues 3rd August 09.30 – 12.15
Public Showcase
Zoom Webinar
Wed 4th August
09.00 – 10.30
Roundtable on Circular Economy
Zoom Meeting
11.00 – 12.30 Roundtable on Digitisation Zoom Meeting
Thurs 5th August 9.30 – 11.30
Policy Alignment and Partnership building
Zoom Meeting
Friday 6th August
09.00 – 10.00
Debriefing Session (UK delegates only)
Zoom Meeting

6. India Sustainable Fashion Mission Report
A Mission report will be produced which will cover the following:
1. Sector overview
2. Market opportunities & barriers
3. National & industry priorities
4. Collaboration potential & benefits
5. Conclusion & recommendations
*Friday’s debriefing session will be key for this report.*

7. UKRI, Innovate UK and
the Creative Industries
Thushara Sabreen, Innovate UK
Innovation Lead – Creative
Industries

9. Innovate UK
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economic growth by supporting
businesses to develop new ideas.
We connect businesses to the people
that can help them, and fund businesses
and research collaborations in all
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for each
organisation
involved
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since 2007
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11. Innovate UK
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 We invest in new ideas and
technologies and connect
businesses to the right people,
to drive economic growth and
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13. Innovate UK
Online Global Expert Mission
Sustainable Fashion in India
2 – 5th August 2021

14. The Global
Expert
Missions

15. +900 million Indian Consumers will
be online
$84 billion E-Commerce market
growth
The garment industry in India is
predicted to be worth USD
$59bn by 2022
Deloitte & Retail Association India

17. @InnovateUK Innovate UK
Innovate UK

18. Research in India
Nanki Aurora, UKRI India
Senior Programme Manager

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UKRI India - An Overview
August 2021
Nanki Aurora-Singh
Sr. Programme Manager | UKRI India

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22. UKRI India
• Representative office for
InnovateUK, AHRC, and
other UKRI Councils
• Established in 2008 in New
Delhi
• Based at the British High
Commission
• Facilitate multi-million-pound,
co-funded R&I partnerships
between UKRI Councils and
Indian funding partners
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23. UKRI India
• From less than £1m in 2008,
to over £300m of co-funded
research between UKRI and
Government of India funding
partners
• Our portfolio spans across
energy, health, food and
water security, agriculture,
climate change, social and
cultural change, and
innovation, connecting over
175 UK and Indian institutes
and more than 100 industry
partners
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24. Our partners in India
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Fashion, Clothing and
Lifestyle in India

26. • India has been a key player in manufacturing for exports.
• Textiles and fashion have always been a rich part of the Indian history and culture.
• 130 lakh weavers and artisans.
• Traditionally been a more sustainable source of clothing, primarily because they are hand
spun and handloomed.
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Fashion, Clothing and Lifestyle in India

27. • Global integration.
• Increasing ‘middle class’.
• Large number of the international fast fashion brands retailing in India.
• Shift in consumer behaviour.
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Fashion, Clothing and Lifestyle in India

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Impact and Sustainable
Fashion

29. • 2.5 billion pounds of deadstock clothes in land fills.
• 2.1 million tons of CO2 emission from textile industry.
• 70 – 100 million tress are cut to make cellulose fabrics each year.
• 700 gallons of water require to produce 1 T-shirt.
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Impact and Sustainable Fashion

30. • The last 10 years have brought about a larger awareness of the impact fast fashion and
changing consumerism have caused.
• Governments, companies and activists alike have started talking about and acting on the
need for change.
• The response has resulted in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the principles of
sustainability being increasingly implemented into the business strategies of the industry.
• Indian brands moving to Sustainable Fashion.
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Impact and Sustainable Fashion

31. @UKRI_news UK Research and Innovation UK Research and Innovation
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32. Q&A

33. Thank you and enjoy
the Mission!