A Process Perspective on Industrial Symbiosis

Boons, Frank; Spekkink, Wouter; Jiao, Wenting

doi:10.1111/jiec.12116

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“…If the stakeholders agree upon the accuracy and embeddedness of the model, the second question is whether the simulated mechanisms, imposed by the design intervention, lead to the desired outcome. Comparative IS dynamics typologies such as those perceived by Boons et al [19] may be helpful to communicate the simulation results to the stakeholders. Along the process, the researcher or facilitator observes the process of participation during concept evaluation through development and use of an ABM.…”

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Developing and Understanding Design Interventions in Relation to Industrial Symbiosis Dynamics

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Symbiotic Urban Agriculture Networks (SUANs) are a specific class of symbiotic networks that intend to close material and energy loops from cities and urban agriculture. Private and public stakeholders in SUANs face difficulties in the implementation of technological and organisational design interventions due to the complex nature of the agricultural and urban environment. Current research on the dynamics of symbiotic networks, especially Industrial Symbiosis (IS), is based on historical data from practice, and provides only partly for an understanding of symbiotic networks as a sociotechnical complex adaptive system. By adding theory and methodology from Design Science, participatory methods, and by using agent-based modelling as a tool, prescriptive knowledge is developed in the form of grounded and tested design rules for SUANs. In this paper, we propose a conceptual Design Science method with the aim to develop an empirically validated participatory agent-based modelling strategy that guides sociotechnical design interventions in SUANs. In addition, we present a research agenda for further strategy, design intervention, and model development through case studies regarding SUANs. The research agenda complements the existing analytical work by adding a necessary Design Science approach, which contributes to bridging the gap between IS dynamics theory and practical complex design issues.

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“…Consequently, social learning can occur in the long run, as engaged organizations may find new ways of dealing with common problems and may encounter their interests and problems in networks (Innes and Booher, 1999). The evolutionary perspective suggests a systematic longitudinal analysis of events influencing network evolution (Boons et al, 2014;Spekkink, 2013;Spekkink, 2015). Event sequences uncover temporal patterns, such as the order and the duration of the events.…”

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Inter-organizational collaboration in bio-based business : sustainability-oriented networks inagro-industrial parks

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“…It will be referred to as the RTP system from this point on. Figure 7.7 represents the adoption of a process perspective, where a process is defined as the central subject together with the 'different types of events that the central subject endures or makes happen' [350]. Any entity of any of the resource, process or product sets can be used as a starting point to define the system.…”

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“…That is, the only rule to follow for depicting any sequence of processes using the RTP system unit is that products of one system are the resources of a future system, and the resources of one system are the products of a past system. This is a result of adopting a process oriented view for analysis [350].…”

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“…System boundaries can be defined from the perspective of the assessor and the model is open to diverse defintions and principles of sustainability [12] as well as the measurements and assessments employed [11]. Resources are products from an earlier system and products are resources for a future system, so it is the process within a RTP system that is unique and therefore provides the locus for system boundary definition [350,354,355].…”

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A conceptual model of a sustainable system based upon observations of biodegradable plastic packaging film experiments and material flow

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One can imagine full knowledge of a system allows for optimal decision making when problems arising within that system need to be solved. In reality, solutions involving any non-trivial system must be pursued with incomplete knowledge. In light of the complexity and diversity of current industrial economic systems and the decision-making processes pertaining to them, integrating streams of knowledge would improve problem solving outcomes on such scales. More specifically, it could potentially address how to compare the rate of problem proliferation to solution implementation within a system. However, successfully integrating knowledge of diverse systems towards a common purpose requires careful and consistent analogies to be constructed between the entities of those systems. The current work investigates the merits of such an approach for resolving sustainable development issues. The hypothesis is that knowledge of what influences the flow and transformation of matter, (that is, what influences a common phenomenon throughout life-supporting systems), can facilitate this integration. The problem of accumulating material waste is used as a vehicle to focus the discussion.To this end, the foundation of the work is an experimental study into the development of a starch based biodegradable plastic packaging film. The two main constraints on sample production were to minimise cost and maximise biodegradability. Slit die rheological data is gathered for five samples selected from polymer extrusion trials as part of describing their viscous behaviours via a semi-empirical model incorporating die temperature (measured at 120, 140 and 160°C) and shear rate (altered by screw speeds of 5-50 rpm).The samples differ in additive content and extrusion passes from a baseline starch/water/glycerol (~73/18/9.0 wt% total) combination extruded once to the addition of cross-linking agents and surface modifiers (<1 wt% total) extruded twice. GPC, DSC, tensile strength and moisture absorption analyses join the rheological data to explain The experimental study represents a typical analytical approach to developing a technical solution. Yet while technology will remain indispensable to problem solving, there is a iii need to realise that splintering knowledge into disciplines of the ever finer detail required to extend technical accomplishment, must also be complemented by a synthesis of associated facts and relevant theories to address more encompassing problems associated with sustainability of the modern industrial economy. Therefore, considering the relative success of modelling the viscous behaviour of the starch based plastic samples, it was proposed to extend the concepts of rheology used to explain the flow of matter on the molecular scale to the flow of matter on the scale of the industrial economy.To whatever extent possible, the advantages of being able to predict how such flows respond to industrial economic decisions would contribute to the research of sustainable systems.The assumption is made here that an apt mate...

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A Process Perspective on Industrial Symbiosis

Cited by 77 publications

References 73 publications

Developing and Understanding Design Interventions in Relation to Industrial Symbiosis Dynamics

Developing and Understanding Design Interventions in Relation to Industrial Symbiosis Dynamics

Inter-organizational collaboration in bio-based business : sustainability-oriented networks inagro-industrial parks

A conceptual model of a sustainable system based upon observations of biodegradable plastic packaging film experiments and material flow

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