IMechE report calls for more support for the sports engineering sector
The UK must increase support for the sports engineering sector to grow start-ups and maintain its leading role in sports engineering research, a report from IMechE has found.
Titled ‘Sustainable, Inclusive, Innovative: The Role of Engineering in Sport’, the report calls for increased investment in specialist facilities for testing sporting technologies and trialling them in environments that closely match real-life conditions.
IMechE suggest that the facilities should be accessible to researchers, allowing them to test the equipment they have designed to help bring it to market.
The Institution further claims that the sports industry has shown evidence of its commitment to sustainability but that more action is needed.
The report recommends that sports technology providers should embrace independently audited ecolabels to help transition to more sustainable materials and manufacturing in the sector.
In a statement, Dr Thomas Allen, co-author of the report and a reader in Mechanical Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University, said: “The UK is a leader in sports engineering and with more support this could grow into an exciting network of home-grown start-ups to boost the economy.
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