Industrial Symbiosis

Lombardi, D. Rachel; Lyons, Donald; Shi, Han; Agarwal, Abhishek

doi:10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00455.x

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“…The closed access tool used by the NISP (i.e. CRISP) (Grant et al, 2010) also includes a text-based knowledge repository, whose successful application was reported in the literature (Grant et al, 2010;Jensen et al, 2011;Laybourn & Morrissey, 2009;Lombardi & Peter, 2006;Paquin & Howard-Grenville, 2012). One of its key function include the storage of completed synergies to provide information for future IS implementation (Grant et al, 2010;Jensen et al, 2011).…”

Section: Tools Techniques and Approachesmentioning

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Tools for promoting industrial symbiosis: A systematic review

Yeo

Masi

Low

et al. 2019

J of Industrial Ecology

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Industrial symbiosis (IS) employs a cross‐organizational perspective to seek synergistic pairings of one company's waste output to another company's input, enabled by interfirm cooperation through resource and information sharing. Orchestrating IS relationships among companies, however, remains a complex process. In the literature, a wide range of qualitative and quantitative tools have emerged, tackling issues ranging from identifying IS creation opportunities to performance evaluation. Thus far, the available literature has focused on separate aspects and perspective of IS creation. Each individual work contributes, in part, to the overall process of IS creation. The disparate perspectives provided by the literature reflect the fragmented nature of available tools supporting IS, which operate in isolation of each other. An encompassing view of tools supporting the process of IS creation is missing to date. Therefore, to fill this gap, this study aims to develop a more comprehensive description of the landscape of IS tools by analyzing the associated approaches, roles, and contribution of existing tools. Through this understanding, the insights gained can be used to aid future development and advancement of tools for IS practitioners.

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Section: Tools Techniques and Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tools for promoting industrial symbiosis: A systematic review

Yeo

Masi

Low

et al. 2019

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…The presence of positive network externalities is exemplified by the case of industrial symbiosis, a practice to configure industrial technologies in a manner that reduces the overall impact of manufacturing by linking wastes and byproducts in one process to the input needs of another (43). The Tianjin EconomicTechnological Development Area Low-Carbon Economy Promotion Center (EcoTEDA) program in Tianjin, China, is an example of an industrial symbiosis model where increasing the number of users would greatly expand the value of the network.…”

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Making Technological Innovation Work for Sustainable Development

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This paper presents insights and action proposals to better harness technological innovation for sustainable development. We begin with three key insights from scholarship and practice. First, technological innovation processes do not follow a set sequence but rather emerge from complex adaptive systems involving many actors and institutions operating simultaneously from local to global scales. Barriers arise at all stages of innovation, from the invention of a technology through its selection, production, adaptation, adoption, and retirement. Second, learning from past efforts to mobilize innovation for sustainable development can be greatly improved through structured cross-sectoral comparisons that recognize the socio-technical nature of innovation systems. Third, current institutions (rules, norms, and incentives) shaping technological innovation are often not aligned toward the goals of sustainable development because impoverished, marginalized, and unborn populations too often lack the economic and political power to shape innovation systems to meet their needs. However, these institutions can be reformed, and many actors have the power to do so through research, advocacy, training, convening, policymaking, and financing. We conclude with three practiceoriented recommendations to further realize the potential of innovation for sustainable development: (i) channels for regularized learning across domains of practice should be established; (ii) measures that systematically take into account the interests of underserved populations throughout the innovation process should be developed; and (iii) institutions should be reformed to reorient innovation systems toward sustainable development and ensure that all innovation stages and scales are considered at the outset. sustainable development | innovation systems | technology | knowledge systems | complex adaptive systems This paper sets forth our perspective on how technological innovation can better advance the goals of sustainable development. We seek to help bridge the gap between scholarship and practice by drawing from conceptual research, empirical cases, and realworld experience to highlight practical guidelines for use by practicing scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and policy advocates.Sustainable development was defined a generation ago through a series of United Nations-led commissions and summits as development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (1). Subsequent work by scholars and international development organizations has broadened the original framing to define development as sustainable when "inclusive wellbeing"-the aggregate quality of life for all people, everywhere, now and in the future-does not decline with time (2-5). More recently, in September 2015, virtually all member countries of the United Nations committed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that provide specific targets and timetables for enhancing inclusive well-being.Technological innova...

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“…Among them, it is useful to mention [50,14,46]: -the industrial symbiosis model useful to conceptualize and to operationalize the relationships between firms and natural environment; -ecological footprint model that measures the complex of resources needed/consumed to produce goods and services; -environmental vectors or domains approach, where different compartments of the productive system are analysed considering their trends over time. Environmental sustainability becomes an option within development theory when Scott and Storper [75] started with the assumption that the regional scale is the geographic basis of the economic development, and the external economies are necessary to make domestic businesses competitive.…”

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Entrepreneurship and Territorial Behavior. How to Exercise Competitiveness in Sustainability in Europe

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2014

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Abstract:The paper focuses on territorial impacts of the European policy with regards to the enterprise systems in the last decade and how the effects of this policy could have irreparable modified the enterprise network relationships (socio-functional and interrelated/cohesive) in regions. This suspicion has suggested European choices include the territorial dimension in the development directions by the intra and inter-regional co-operation. The searching new forms of balanced growth for enterprise is the future objective; it could be followed by assuming a territorial polycentric cohesive organization. Important European documents, like Europe 2020 Strategy and Territorial Agenda (2011), stress this orientation. A critical review of Economic Geography literature with regards to main localisation theories of enterprise opens this contribution, in order to accompany the reader in understanding of new strategic parameters able to measure `the regional productive capability' of enterprises in the framework of European recent directions. By using innovative methodologies, the performance of enterprise systems and networks looking at these parameters, highlights European specific territorialised typologies of behaviour. Finally, some policy recommendations are suggested in this direction in order to improve the regional productivity, as well as the employment in relation with to specific economic-social-environmental parameters of cohesion and competitiveness in sustainability, looking at the regional productive capability of Small/Medium Firms (SMFs) in Europe with regards to main pillars of the 2014-2020 Strategy.Keywords: Enterprises' Economic Geography, European Competitiveness, Sustainability Sustainable and Economic Cohesive Development Versus Economic Growth of Enterprises Systems and NetworksThe review and comparison of relevant theoretical/academic literature identify key concepts and definitions with regards to competitiveness and sustainability, and, more recently, to cohesion.In the 1990s, the literature on competitiveness, sustainability and cohesion is developed under different and no linked scientific domains; the research on the competitiveness performance concerning enterprises is the largest and more dynamic. Since the 2000s, interdisciplinary relationships among these three concepts are developed.Initially, competitiveness is considered by different forms of access to foreign markets and as one of the main factors of the theory of international exchange the study of the behavior and strategy of the enterprise. The basic causes of competitiveness were to be studied according to diverse starting resources and different technological levels, in relation to scale performances and to the change of the factors prices and assets [4,16,20,32].A few works only extend the analysis to the role of the access procedures to foreign markets (internationalization)1 . The internationalisation of the enterprises was only one of the components influencing the firm's competitiveness and its role could be estimated o...

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Industrial Symbiosis

Cited by 57 publications

References 32 publications

Tools for promoting industrial symbiosis: A systematic review

Tools for promoting industrial symbiosis: A systematic review

Making Technological Innovation Work for Sustainable Development

Entrepreneurship and Territorial Behavior. How to Exercise Competitiveness in Sustainability in Europe

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