1. Industrial Ecology and Sustainability 1.1 Policyand Material-related Developments 2. Basic Concepts of Industrial Ecology 2.1 The Biological Analogy 2.2 Types of Industrial Ecology 2.3 Limits of the Analogy 2.4 Shortcomings of Interlinked Systems and Strategies 3. Industrial Ecology and the relation to tools and methods 3.1 Life-cycle Approach 3.2 Material Flow Analysis 3.2.1 Draft IN-OUT Ba...

Industrial symbiosis (IS) is a subdiscipline of Industrial Ecology that aims to bring together companies from different sectors to share resources, namely energy, materials, and water. The main goal of IS is to improve resource (materials, waste, energy) efficiency and lead to mutual environmental, financial and social benefits to participants. In this paper we present a semantic approach for I...

During the last decade branding has developed to be one of the main focus areas in consumer marketing. In the industrial marketing area there has only been limited attention to this phenomenon. In this paper we focus on how co-branding can be used on industrial markets to increase value. Through an empirical study of professional purchasers’ attitudes towards co-branding activities between two ...

the main purpose of this study is to empirically compare of intellectual capital (ic) and its efficiency between advanced and low technology manufacturing companies using a sample of 135 malaysian listed manufacturing companies during the 2006-2012 period. the manufacturing companies are classified into different sectors based on their products and services (standard industrial classification (...