National Textile incubation

Purpose and goal:

During the two years that NEST has been established, the project group assesses the initiative as very successful. Overall goals such as increased qualitative support for entrepreneurs with a textile & fashion focus, ensuring support for more companies than today and the opportunity to inspire other incubators to collaborate in other industry areas have been met.

The collaboration between Borås INK, Sting, Expression and XPlot has worked very well and the initiative has had a very good national spread. Expected results and effects: - Number of contractors who are accepted to our test drive and demo days; Objective = 40. Outcome 95,

- Number of entrepreneurs who are accepted into our collaborative incubator process. Objective = 10. Outcome = 8 (talks are currently underway with 3 more). - Number of leads to applicant to NEST through our digital platform = 541 pcs. - Number of applicants = 119 companies. - Number of displays on LinkedIOn = 60 573.

- Number of exposures in Instagram = 119 309. - Number of NEST newsletter = 32 pcs. - Number of opened NEST newsletters = 2244 pcs. Approach and implementation:

We can state that the textile industry is facing major sustainability challenges as one of the industries that affects the world´s climate most negatively. Initiativet NEST has raised and actualized the challenge where a number of exciting solutions and improvements are brought to the surface and received additional support and coaching. The cooperation between industry associations, existing businesses and startups/entrepreneurs has been made possible and new collaborations have been established. NEST has a clear objective to continue developing after the project period.