Challenges for the adoption of industrial symbiosis approaches within industrial agglomerations

Implementation Barriers of Industrial Symbiosis: A Systematic Review

“…All in all, 402 barriers could be extracted within the 23 articles identified ( [8], [9], [13]- [19], [28]- [41]). These are evaluated concept-centrically in the following [21].…”

“…The economic category consist of barriers related to investment (e.g., different investment cycles [28], [29], [33] and change costs [14], [19], [31]), feasibility (e.g., conflicts with financial gains [15]), benefit sharing (e.g., difficulty to assign value [38] or to identify cost-benefits ex ante [14], [29], [33]), and costs (e.g., related to promotion [31] or transport [14], [38]). Additionally, the categories uncertainty (e.g., uncertain profits [33] and margins [28]) and risk [40] belong to the economic category.…”

“…• Barriers are in some cases rather vague or unspecified (e.g., 'regulatory issues' [18]) leading to a limited understanding of occurring barriers. • Underlying triggering factors of barriers are assigned to different categories in different studies (e.g., informational factors to the categories 'cooperation' and 'trust' [8], [19] or 'information' [8], [16]) making the comparability and cause and effect analysis of these barriers difficult. Especially informational, managerial and social aspects are often not separated clearly.…”

ICT Usage in Industrial Symbiosis: Problem Identification and Study Design

“…Informational barriers in particular are often linked with social factors such as trust, cooperation, and community. Although a cause-effect relationship may exist (according to [14] and [15], managerial barriers are a causal factor and informational barriers are an effect factor), the present inconsistency in barrier categorization and the lack of a uniform allocation of the underlying aspects make it difficult to compare the studies, reducing their clarity and validity.…”

“…In recent years, some surveys on industrial symbiosis activities and barriers have been conducted, both to examine the interest in and maturity of industrial symbiosis in a specific region and to capture the perception of barriers to adopting symbiotic behavior (see Table I). The surveys usually address companies (general or environmental managers) or policymakers but rarely the managers of industrial parks, despite the wide recognition of their potential role as facilitators [14], [15].…”