Industrial Symbiosis Implementation by Leveraging on Process Efficiency Methodologies

“Uncovering” Industrial Symbiosis

Since 1989, efforts to understand the nature of interfirm resource sharing in the form of industrial symbiosis and to replicate in a deliberate way what was largely self-organizing in Kalundborg, Denmark have followed many paths, some with much success and some with very little. This article provides a historical view of the motivations and means for pursuing industrial symbiosis—defined to inc...

The development of regional collaboration for resource efficiency: A network perspective on industrial symbiosis

Industrial symbiosis (IS) improves regional sustainability through inter-firm collaboration for more efficient use of materials and energy. Drawing on the literature of IS and complex networks, this paper proposes three forming processes of IS networks corresponding to different institutional settings – preferential growth under self-organization, homogeneous growth under coordination and facil...

Information Synergy of Industrial Symbiosis

Purpose: This paper tries to review the exiting literature on Information and Communication Technologies for Industrial Symbiosis. And it presents an open data approach to the Industrial Symbiosis research. Method: Literature reviews and data mining are used to achieve the research purposes. Results: Four insights can be gained from an explorative open data approach on E-PRTR data sets: 1. We c...

Semantic algorithm for Industrial Symbiosis network synthesis

The paper introduces a semantic algorithm for building Industrial Symbiosis networks. Built around ontology modelling of knowledge in the domain of Industrial Symbiosis, the algorithm enables the acquisition of the explicit knowledge from the user through ontology instantiation and input/output matching based on semantic relevance between the particip...

Industrial Symbiosis in the Swedish Forest Industry