Networking and Industrial Symbiosis development: evidences from six empirical contexts

The development of an Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a socio-technical phenomenon; this is much more evident when an IS relies on existing contexts. Industrial networks have been proven to be one of the best models of local industrial development, and favourable contexts for IS. It is widely recognised that the features of the starting contexts may deeply influence the development of the IS, the present article aims to contributes to this debate investigating the networking features (entities/nodes and relations/ties) of six industrial contexts. The study proposed is a meta-analysis of the experiences gained by the authors in the carrying out studies concerning the potential development of IS in Italian local industrial networks.