Innovation catalysts for industrial waste challenges: Sri Lankan and Thai cases

Park, Curie; Tantiyaswasdikul, Kallaya; Evans, Steve; Lertwattanaruk, Pusit

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2019.04.071

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“…Provide support for waste upcycling education, endorsements, resource hubs [65,96] Better mobilization of resources and knowledge [97] [86] Promote circular spirits and capacity building for entrepreneurs [38,98]…”

Section: Macro-enablersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Synthesising the key literature from 85 publications papers, Table 5 summarises emergent opportunities for waste upcycling categorises under social, environment and economic clusters. Leveraging sustainability-oriented innovation for waste valorisation [10] Stimulates entrepreneurship, supporting the culture of prosumerism [6,75] Socioeconomic regeneration by cocreating shared value [37,100] Ability to use biomimicry approaches [30] Facilitate economic diversification and can exploit Niche market opportunity [29] Collaboration among academic institutions, which could be set up through joint-funding schemes [16] Ability to create future goods and services that is consistent with sustainable development goals [9,104] Enables more sustainable consumer behaviour [16,96] Previous waste upcycling efforts have created opportunities for people to be socially responsible, inclusive and equitable, and use waste material to develop economically viable, environmentally sustainable and competitive businesses.…”

Section: Meso-enablersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evaluating Barriers, Enablers and Opportunities for Closing the Loop through ‘Waste Upcycling’: A Systematic Literature Review

Caldera¹,

Jayasinghe²,

Desha³

et al. 2022

J. sustain. dev. energy water environ. syst.

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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals aim to 'do more and better with less', with numerous calls to action arising from the business sector concerning the substantial reduction of targeted types of commercial and industrial waste. Emanating from the original work on closing material loops by McDonough and Braungardt in the 1990s, over the last two decades the concept of 'upcycling' has increased in popularity as a targeted intervention to reduce material and energy use in business processes. Essentially upcycling involves reusing, repairing, repurposing and upgrading waste material to avoid the conventional endpoint of 'disposal'. However, upcycling is still considered a niche practice and many business enterprises remain unclear as to how to use upcycling opportunities for better management of their waste. In this paper, the authors propose a Tiered Approach to Waste Upcycling for Business, as a strategic way for businesses to close the loop within their industrial processes and production chains. The paper comprises a systematic literature review of opportunities and barriers for enabling business enterprises to close the loop through waste upcycling. The review highlights the ad hoc, champion-based and highly variable use of upcycling practices and uncovers opportunities for more systematic and streamlined practices to produce valueadded products from waste material. Synthesising the findings, the authors establish three tiers of 'macro', 'meso' and 'micro' barriers and enablers that businesses can consider identifying upcycling opportunities for managing their waste. The authors also discuss key benefits of upcycling including improved quality and life of material, creating jobs and influencing positive consumer behaviour. The authors conclude the benefits of a structured approach to considering circular economy opportunities, towards improved waste management that is better for the bottom line, people and planet. With regard to future research in the field, the authors define a set of key theoretical constructs relating to waste upcycling, that can facilitate innovation and investigations into applying ideas.

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Section: Macro-enablersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Meso-enablersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating Barriers, Enablers and Opportunities for Closing the Loop through ‘Waste Upcycling’: A Systematic Literature Review

Caldera¹,

Jayasinghe²,

Desha³

et al. 2022

J. sustain. dev. energy water environ. syst.

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“…Growing environmental pollution around the world is forcing scientists and entrepreneurs to search for products, services and manufacturing methods aimed at cleaner, more sustainable consumption and production [57,58]. The problem of waste generated by households and industry is also a huge challenge [59,60]. Solving this problem requires innovative, efficient and effective recycling methods.…”

Section: Innovation In Terms Of the Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Is Innovation a Risky Business? A Comparative Analysis in High-Tech and Traditional Industries in Poland

Nawrocki

Jonek-Kowalska²

2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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A high level of innovativeness and technology complexity is most often associated with a faster and more dynamic pace of economic development. In turn, it enables enterprises to achieve better financial results and strengthen their competitive advantage. Despite these potential benefits, in practice, innovation is also associated with the need to take up new challenges, which may be accompanied by a higher risk. The main goal of the research is a comparative analysis of the relationship between innovation and the risk of running a business in traditional and high-tech industries exemplified by the Polish economy. The authors assess the risk in 44 enterprises in the years 2010–2020 based on the proprietary evaluation model that uses the variation of financial parameters associated with innovativeness. The obtained results indicate a higher level of risk in the high-tech group with more complex and modern technologies, in particular in the pharmaceutical and computer games sectors. In the group of traditional enterprises, the risk in the analysed sectors is more diversified, and it is much higher in manufacturing enterprises than in services and trade. The empirical and quite extensive nature of the research allows for a practical assessment of the direction and strength of the relationship between innovation, risk and technology complexity.

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Quantifying circularity factor of waste: Assessing the circular economy potential of industrial zones

Edirisinghe,

de Alwis,

Wijayasundara

et al. 2024

Cleaner Environmental Systems

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Innovation catalysts for industrial waste challenges: Sri Lankan and Thai cases

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Evaluating Barriers, Enablers and Opportunities for Closing the Loop through ‘Waste Upcycling’: A Systematic Literature Review

Evaluating Barriers, Enablers and Opportunities for Closing the Loop through ‘Waste Upcycling’: A Systematic Literature Review

Is Innovation a Risky Business? A Comparative Analysis in High-Tech and Traditional Industries in Poland

Quantifying circularity factor of waste: Assessing the circular economy potential of industrial zones

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