Anjali Wanigasuriya Arachchige
Research student
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Biography
Anjali is primarily a fashion designer who has previously spent six years working in design and development for well known European and American brands within the UK and Asian fashion industry.
She holds an MA in Fashion Business Management from University of Westminster and a B.Design (Hons) in Fashion Design & Product Development from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Current research
How do sportswear companies innovate: to what extent is knowledge embedded in technological innovation within new product development in the sportswear industry?
Anjali will be looking at how an organisation creates knowledge to support its innovation and thereby to what extent knowledge is embedded within products and process. Her research is expected to illustrate how knowledge creating capabilities of an organisation determines its performance and survival by routinely innovating (or vice-versa). She will be looking at the product development process - where does new knowledge come from, how designers work on new ideas and the ways in which their knowledge is reflected back in innovative design on their knowledge creation, ie. the product.
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