Industrial Symbiosis: A Sectoral Analysis on Enablers and Barriers

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) around the world in last 20 years had been characterized through an extensive analysis of scientific papers on IS emerging process, with a special focus its early stages. The literature suggests that this process there are key factors (enablers, barriers, triggers, and challenges) play critical role Symbiosis. From those factors, enablers barriers have highlighted most studies their different dimensions (social, economic, policy, technological, management, or geographical, amongst others). Several implementation cases suggest relevance these rely dominant economic sectors involved. This study aims to reveal various behaviour according each one. To accomplish objective, comprehensive assessment methodology was designed performed. is divided two sequential phases: first, sectoral analysis, focuses identification more relevant per sectors; second phase, incidence individual sector identified. new approach correlates order provide insights dimensions. main result consists set recommendations might be reinforce synergies help overcome analysed.