Nowadays, industrial symbiosis is a key concept of industrial ecology, which studies material and energy exchange flows in the local industrial systems to reduce the costs, e.g., the wastes treatment cost, and to reduce the pollution, e.g., greenhouse gas emissions. An industrial park is a set of manufacturing businesses producing different products and by-products located at the same place (ci...

Successful new products are rsrrntidi to the financial viability of many firms, with more than half of mast firms' sales resulting from products introduced in the past decade. But despite much research attempting to relate industrial innovation and firm performance, a cohesive themy has yet to emerge. We use structural equation models to assess the simultaneous impact of market structure, firm ...

This short paper describes briefly results from industrial and literature survey about collaborative software development. The work done is part of the MERLIN project, an ITEA project lasting from July 2004 to June 2007. The Merlin consortium [1] consists of both research and industrial partners. The industrial partners represent several divergent embedded SW business areas: telecommunications,...