An ontology of Industrial Symbiosis: The design of a support tool for collaborative Industrial Symbiosis research with as test cases from Tianjin Economic Development Area and Kalundborg

An ontology of Industrial Symbiosis: The design of a support tool for collaborative Industrial Symbiosis research with as test cases from Tianjin Economic Development Area and Kalundborg

Nooij, S.A.

Herder, P.M. (mentor)
Nikolic, I. (mentor)
Cunningham, S.W. (mentor)
Yu, C. (mentor)

Technology, Policy and Management

Energy and Industry

2014-09-30

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) in an inter-firm collaboration that delivers both economic and environmental benefits. IS can occur when there are local opportunities for the exchange of an underutilized resource, this means that the exchanged resource is often not a standard product. A non-standard product requires technical expertise and investments in processing equipment or other physical assets. Which in turn puts additional tension on the socio-economic decision making process, because of asset specificity. Thus systems with IS are complex systems, systems with an interplay between socio-economic behaviour and the technical network (Dijkema & Basson 2009). As a consequence, IS attracts scientists from multiple different disciplines. This might explain why there is not yet a widely shared understanding of self-organizing IS (Chertow & Ehrenfeld 2012). All big challenges society phases require inter-disciplinary collaboration. Finding a way to built inter-disciplinary knowledge without reducing the level of detail, is thus not only relevant to IS-research, but ever more important for society in general.

industrial symbiosis
semantic web
ontology design
case studies
collaboration

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Student theses

master thesis

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