Linking Business Ecosystem and Natural Ecosystem Together—A Sustainable Pathway for Future Industrialization

Shi, Yongjiang; Chao, Lu; Hong, Hou; Zhen, Lu; Hu, Jialun

doi:10.3390/joitmc7010038

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“…Additionally, innovation in times of crisis demonstrates features of collaboration beyond traditional supply chain and dynamic changes, which is consistent with the coevolution view of business ecosystems [8,35]. Findings show that, rather than a clear separation of inbound and outbound open innovation, coupled patterns with co-creation, digital platforms, and alliances are key to flexibility and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

Section: Summary Of the Findingssupporting

confidence: 71%

Open Innovation in Times of Crisis: An Overview of the Healthcare Sector in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Liu

Shi

Yang

2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge and disruptive technological changes in the healthcare sector, transforming the way businesses and societies function. To respond to the global health crisis, there have been numerous innovation projects in the healthcare sector, including the fast design and manufacturing of personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical devices, and testing, treatment, and vaccine technologies. Many of these innovative activities happen beyond organizational boundaries with collaboration and open innovation. In this paper, we review the current literature on open innovation strategy during the pandemic and adopt the co-evolution view of business ecosystems to address the context of change. Based on a detailed exploration of the COVID-19-related technologies in the UK and global healthcare sectors, we identify the key emerging themes of open innovation in crisis. Further discussions are conducted in relation to each theme. Our results and analysis can help provide policy recommendations for the healthcare sector, businesses, and society to recover from the crisis.

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confidence: 71%

Open Innovation in Times of Crisis: An Overview of the Healthcare Sector in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Yang

2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…In light of this conceptual framework, we can affirm that, although smart and wise service systems respond to the logic of value co-creation and dynamic vitality in complex scenarios, the latter (wise configuration) better interprets the symbiotic configurations of natural networks, and therefore, artificial ones such as symbiotic reticular structures are integrated into web-based industrial platforms, in a way linking business ecosystem and natural ecosystem [45]. Wise symbiotic networks represent optimizing configurations of the processes of co-creation and win-win distributions of the value generated and produced by symbiotic relational synergies.…”

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“…The literature review was conducted with a mixed procedure: in the first phase (bibliometric phase), the contributions specifically devoted to ICT platforms were identified in the Web of Science Core Collection within the vast scientific production on industrial symbiosis existing in the two macro-scientific areas of circular economy and industrial ecology. The query used was as follows: TOPIC: ("industrial symbiosis") AND TOPIC: In light of this conceptual framework, we can affirm that, although smart and wise service systems respond to the logic of value co-creation and dynamic vitality in complex scenarios, the latter (wise configuration) better interprets the symbiotic configurations of natural networks, and therefore, artificial ones such as symbiotic reticular structures are integrated into web-based industrial platforms, in a way linking business ecosystem and natural ecosystem [45]. Wise symbiotic networks represent optimizing configurations of the processes of co-creation and win-win distributions of the value generated and produced by symbiotic relational synergies.…”

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Insights of Digital Transformation Processes in Industrial Symbiosis from the Viable Systems Approach (vSa)

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The main purpose of this contribution is twofold: from a scientific point of view, to interpret the symbiotic logic through the framework of the Viable Systems approach (vSa), and from a managerial viewpoint, to provide the actors of industrial symbiosis initiatives, at any stage of their life cycle, with a guide to the most promising web-based solutions in terms of defining the best configuration for the symbiotic network. The article, therefore, aims to provide an in-depth study of the existing literature, which is still not exhaustive, and to consider synoptically and comparatively the modern platforms capable of supporting industrial symbiosis initiatives. The objective was pursued by examining 10 existing and functioning Web-based platforms, of which only a few were previously explored in the previous literature, while the recognition of the latter was carried out on a bibliometric basis to articulate in more detail the existing gap based on a panel of contributions as large as possible. The joint consideration of the literature review and the examination of the existing and functioning platforms shows an articulated framework of approaches, proposed models, and classification schemes of their functions, which allows us to conclude that given the sectoral, territorial, and specific characteristics of the materials addressed by each platform and considering the different cycles existing in eco-industrial parks (water, energy, by-products, etc.), the most promising way for their implementation is to consider multiple platforms to fully exploit the contribution of each of them. As for the management implications, the suggestion is to integrate the results obtained from the different platforms and to evaluate the configurational alternatives with multi-criteria procedures.

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“…The definition of "ecosystem" contemplates a multilateral set of partners, not necessarily hierarchically controlled [20], which interact in order to realize the core value proposition [22]. In other words, the ecosystem encompasses characteristics such as being complementarity [20,53] and actors' interdependence [22] that collaborate and coordinate their activities [20] to build an integrated industrial system focused on business [54].…”

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Exploring the Dynamic of a Circular Ecosystem: A Case Study about Drivers and Barriers

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The circular economy (CE) aims to minimize the environmental impact caused throughout the entire production chain, which can be achieved by implementing circular strategies in collaboration with different actors within a business ecosystem. Although the close relationship between CE and business ecosystem concepts, which originated the term “circular ecosystem”, research about this subject is necessary, given the scarcity of empirical studies addressing the phenomenon. Therefore, this study aims to contribute by investigating a Brazilian circular ecosystem specialized in the manufacture of ecological tiles through recycled carton packages. The exploratory case study method was selected to characterize the ecosystem and identify 27 drivers and 17 barriers that enhance and hinder the ecosystem’s existence and functioning. Our findings, summarized by a framework, demonstrate the need for integration among the ecosystem’s actors so that its value proposition can be delivered. This issue is crucial for collecting post-consumer packaging for recycling and manufacturing ecological tiles. However, actors within the circular ecosystem face some obstacles to collecting the amount of packaging post-consumer material, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, this work generates discussions and future studies on circular ecosystems, especially in the Brazilian context, where there is little evidence in this research field.

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Linking Business Ecosystem and Natural Ecosystem Together—A Sustainable Pathway for Future Industrialization

Cited by 23 publications

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Open Innovation in Times of Crisis: An Overview of the Healthcare Sector in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Open Innovation in Times of Crisis: An Overview of the Healthcare Sector in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Insights of Digital Transformation Processes in Industrial Symbiosis from the Viable Systems Approach (vSa)

Exploring the Dynamic of a Circular Ecosystem: A Case Study about Drivers and Barriers

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