Connected lifecycle systems: A new perspective on industrial symbiosis

A Systems Perspective on Industrial Information Integration

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...

“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...

Can a Product Have a Facebook? A New Perspective on Product Avatars in Product Lifecycle Management

In today’s business environment, customer expectation towards product lifecycle information accessibility and quality is rising. Concepts such as the Internet of Things (IoT) respond to these demands enabling products becoming “intelligent” and capable of interaction. Simultaneously, society is changing with people spending more and more time online. Social networks allow them to interact richl...

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...