Which factors promote or inhibit enterprises’ participation in industrial symbiosis? An analytical approach and a case study in China

Ji, Yijun; Liu, Zhikan; Wu, Jing; He, Xu

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118600

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“…Yu et al (2015) [29] explored the main driving factors that influence the development of the industrial symbiosis system in the Rizhao Economic and Technological Development Area from both the enterprise and governmental aspects. Ji et al (2020) [30] took the Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Area as an example to analyze the main factors affecting enterprise participation in industrial symbiosis.…”

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Network Analysis of Industrial Symbiosis in Chemical Industrial Parks: A Case Study of Nanjing Jiangbei New Materials High-Tech Park

2022

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As the primary drivers of the chemical industry, chemical industrial parks should be characterized by industrial symbiosis, which is essential for realizing the worldwide transformation from linear to circular economies based on sustainable development. At present, a lack of sufficient attention is paid to analyzing the structural characteristics and interaction patterns of industrial symbiosis networks in chemical industrial parks, especially in large-scale specialized chemical industrial parks on a national scale. In this context, with Nanjing Jiangbei New Materials High-Tech Park as an example, this study applies a social-network analysis to empirically investigate the structural characteristics and interaction patterns of an industrial symbiosis network. The results revealed that the industrial symbiosis network of Nanjing Jiangbei New Materials High-Tech Park is currently in a state of low-level agglomeration with a poor transitivity index and that short-distance straight chains are the main connections between enterprises with few transverse connections. Recycling enterprises occupy the core position in the network, while chemical manufacturing enterprises are mostly located on the periphery of the network and fail to establish sufficient effective connections. In terms of individuals, stakeholders’ understanding and evaluation of industrial symbiosis are insufficient; in terms of enterprises, the obstruction of byproducts and waste information circulation and other factors are the main obstacles restricting the industrial symbiosis activities in Nanjing Jiangbei New Materials High-Tech Park. Some policy recommendations are proposed to improve the industrial symbiosis network in large-scale specialized chemical industrial parks on a national scale, and these include establishing industrial symbiosis information systems for the parks, fostering multiple central nodes, and advancing nested development among industrial chains.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Network Analysis of Industrial Symbiosis in Chemical Industrial Parks: A Case Study of Nanjing Jiangbei New Materials High-Tech Park

2022

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“…The responsibilities of the actors have been shown to impact the perception of factors that influence participation [4,39]. For instance, Ji et al [40] show that a company's perception of different influencing factors differs depending on whether the company is a receiver or a producer of an excess resource. The producer of an excess resource is more likely to perceive valuable information leakage as a barrier than the receiver of the resource.…”

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“…The receiver, on the other hand, is more inclined to experience uncertainty in waste supply as a barrier. This is explained by the fact that the receiver may be dependent on the excess resource in its production and thereby suffer more from a disrupted collaboration than the producing actor [40].…”

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The Importance of Individual Actor Characteristics and Contextual Aspects for Promoting Industrial Symbiosis Networks

2022

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Factors that affect and influence industrial symbiosis (IS) collaborations have been researched extensively in the literature, where they are mostly reported at a network level or for IS in general, and lack the individual actor’s perspective. This review article contributes to and expands knowledge of influencing factors and their effect on the individual actor. In a systematic review, guided by the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, this study reviews 53 scientific papers examining planned or existing IS networks. It examines literature from 1 January 2000 to 28 March 2022, and it identifies drivers, barriers, and enablers influencing actors to participate in IS. It explores whether and how the perception and impact of these factors differs depending on the characteristics of individual actors and their specific context. The main findings of this study reveal that an actor’s specific characteristics and the network’s context have a significant impact on decision making and how actors both perceive and are affected by factors influencing collaboration. Furthermore, an additional novel contribution to this field of research is that the study identifies three underlying and recurring considerations that actors appear to find critical, namely, perceived business opportunities/risks, regulatory and political setting, and potential inequalities in the network. The results show that an actor’s take on these critical considerations determines whether the actor is willing to engage in IS.

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“…Especially environmental regulations and laws are considered to be triggering and pushing forces for companies to engage in an IS system (Bacudio et al 2016;Ji et al 2020), beside the motivation of economic advantages. Among others, hindering factors are the lack of awareness of IS concepts (Sakr et al 2011;Bacudio et al 2016;Ji et al 2020), lack of local IS possibilities, lack of information sharing among locators (Sakr et al 2011;Bacudio et al 2016), lack of an institutional support for integration, coordination and communication, lack of technology and infrastructure readiness (Bacudio et al 2016) and difficulties in reaching agreements (Ji et al 2020). The identified barriers of IS implementation has driven the current research work, which aims to tackle these aspects and facilitate the exploitation of IS to be used as a lever for a sustainable industrial development.…”

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Requirements Engineering for an Industrial Symbiosis Tool for Industrial Parks Covering System Analysis, Transformation Simulation and Goal Setting

Lütje

Wohlgemuth

2020

Administrative Sciences

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Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a collaborative cross-sectoral approach to connect the resource supply and demand of various industries in order to optimize the resource use through exchange of materials, energy, water and human resources across different companies, while generating ecological, technical, social and economic benefits. One of the main goals of IS is the set-up of advanced circular/cascading systems, in which the energy and material flows are prolonged for multiple utilization within industrial systems in order to increase resource productivity and efficiency, while reducing the environmental load. Many Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools have been developed to facilitate IS, but they predominantly focus on the as-is analysis of the IS system, and do not consider the development of a common desired target vision or corresponding possible future scenarios as well as conceivable transformation paths from the actual to the defined (sustainability) target state. This gap shall be addressed in this paper, presenting the software requirements engineering results for a holistic IT-supported IS tool covering system analysis, transformation simulation and goal-setting. This new approach goes beyond system analysis and includes the use of expert systems, system dynamics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, which turn the IT-supported IS tool to be developed into a comprehensive and holistic instrument with which future scenarios and transformation paths can be simulated.

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Which factors promote or inhibit enterprises’ participation in industrial symbiosis? An analytical approach and a case study in China

Cited by 20 publications

References 54 publications

Network Analysis of Industrial Symbiosis in Chemical Industrial Parks: A Case Study of Nanjing Jiangbei New Materials High-Tech Park

Network Analysis of Industrial Symbiosis in Chemical Industrial Parks: A Case Study of Nanjing Jiangbei New Materials High-Tech Park

The Importance of Individual Actor Characteristics and Contextual Aspects for Promoting Industrial Symbiosis Networks

Requirements Engineering for an Industrial Symbiosis Tool for Industrial Parks Covering System Analysis, Transformation Simulation and Goal Setting

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