17. Dezember 2013

Although relatively under-studied, industrial symbiosis may be a particularly valuable type of interfirm action for creating value under economic constraints, such as increased environmental regulations, because it involves firms collaborating to find economical ways to “do more with less”, by taking wastes and excess resources from one firm and processing them into valuable inputs for another.

To better understand its value-creating potential, Paquin, Busch and Tilleman analyzed firm- and policy-level environmental and economic outcomes for over 300 industrial symbiosis exchanges across the United Kingdom, during a period of increasing environmental taxation and regulation.

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