Women-led engineering businesses are benefiting from a programme which enables academia-industry collaboration to create innovative low carbon goods, processes and services. Autentica Parts, based in Liverpool, is a platform which allows engineers to share designs for parts and components which can be 3D printed by customers anywhere in the world.
It is the brainchild of Irma Gilbert who developed the concept through the Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory (LCEI), a business support programme co-delivered by Lancaster University which gives small companies free access to academic expertise and resources through funded research and development projects, ranging from one month to 12-months. Irma Gilbert, Founder…
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