Iain Hosie
Position: Technical Director, Owner, Founder, previously Revolution Fibres
Field: Nanotechnology, nanomaterials
Ian Hosie
Technical Director, Owner, Founder of Revolution Fibres.
Key skills, attitudes and values for innovation
Iain thinks innovators share these important attitudes:
Innovators don’t accept that things can’t be done.
Innovators are good at seeing hurdles as potential challenges.
Innovators are restless people – always trying to improve what they’ve got or to solve problems.
Innovation is gradual and continual improvement. To me, innovation is almost like a restlessness to improve what you’ve got or solve problems.
Meet an innovator: Iain Hosie
Iain Hosie, Technical Director, Revolution Fibres, discusses his career path and working in the innovation sector. He describes himself as a businessman in a science space or an entrepreneur in an innovation space.
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Background knowledge and experience
Innovation draws on a range of people with diverse knowledge and expertise. Each person involved contributes a unique knowledge and skill set, which is determined by their particular educational background, the range of experiences they are involved in through their work as well as their life outside of work.
The background knowledge and a varied work experience has contributed to Iain’s unique knowledge and skill set for his role at Revolution Fibres, including:
BSc (Massey University)
working for the Scottish and New Zealand Governments in policy roles
working for HRV in sales, marketing and training roles.
Update
In May 2021, Revolution Fibres rebranded to NanoLayr as it moved to expand its business.
In 2025 NanoLayr was placed into voluntary administration. This was due to a number of factors, including Aotearoa New Zealand being too far from key markets and Nanolayr was unable to get enough investment to reach “commercial revenue scale needed to become profitable".
