The present paper explores how industrial symbiosis emergence unfolds within port areas. A multiple case study shows emerges through partnering and stakeholder processes that take the form of collaborative business models. Focusing on actors, platforms for collaboration, content processes, identifies drivers emergence, including importance geographical proximity agglomeration, which identify ar...

The cultivation of soybean in Brazil experienced an expressive growth in the last decades. Soybean is highly demanding on nitrogen (N) that must come from fertilizers or from biological fixation. The N supply to the soybean crop in Brazil relies on the inoculation with elite strains of Bradyrhizobium japonicum, B. elkanii, and B. diazoefficiens, which are able to fulfill the crop's N requiremen...

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...

Phase I of the Gulf Coast By-Product Synergy (BPS) project, sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and the U.S. Department of Energy and facilitated by the U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development, is now complete. The concept behind ByProduct Synergy is also referred to as Industrial Ecosystem, Industrial Symbiosis, or “Industrial Ecology” (IE) system. The philosophy of the IE ap...

In recent times, the construction industry has been handling circular economy strategies in order to face most important challenges sector, namely lack of raw materials and environmental impacts derived from all processes linked entire supply chain. The industrial symbiosis approach represents an effective strategy improve circularity industry. This study analyses performance emerging network p...

Industrial symbiosis is a promising business model that pushes companies to move from linear production circular path. However, this transformation complex because it requires rethink and redesign their supply chains by considering the involvement of new stakeholders, introduction waste impact on product development, economic investments, technological resources. As result, need innovative mode...