Title: Analysis of complex industrial eco-innovation: key aspects for development of symbiotic
relationship between two industrial enterprises.
Supervision: Romain Farel, Elizaveta Kuznetsova (PS2E) Marija Jankovic
Brief presentation
According to the OECD report ‘Eco-Innovation in Industry: Enabling Green Growth’ the industrial ecoinnovations are able tackle climate change and realise “green growth” by introduction of
breakthrough innovative solutions (e.g., technological, economic, social etc.) while improving
industrial competitiveness. One of these industrial eco-innovations is the industrial symbiosis aiming
at connecting sinks and sources of different industrial enterprises for energy/materials exchanges.
On the one hand, these exchanges allow to create energy/material pooling to tackle the problem of
local resource scarcity and to decrease environmental pollution. On the other hand, industrial
symbiosis allows to create added value for the industrial energy/material waste and decrease
the expenses for energy/material purchase.
Unfortunately, the mechanism for the industrial symbiosis creation is not very well explored. In this
view, the goal of this study is:
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to analyze the main stages of the mechanism for industrial symbiosis creation (from the idea
to the implementation);
to identify and review different important aspects (e.g., technological development,
regulation, economics and finance, social acceptance and collaboration) which play the role
of barriers and/or drivers for industrial symbiosis development.
In addition, student can propose the way how to account these aspects at the earlier stages of the
industrial symbiosis development (e.g., through metrics or indicators).
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