Linking Business Ecosystem and Natural Ecosystem Together—A Sustainable Pathway for Future Industrialization

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity

Hong Hou¹  Yongjiang Shi¹  Jialun Hu²  Lu Zhen³  Chao Lu³ 

[1] Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK;School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK;School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China;

关键词: business ecosystem;    industrial ecology;    innovation and entrepreneurship;   

DOI  :  10.3390/joitmc7010038

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

China has emerged as the second largest economy in the world during the globalization in the last forty years. However, in the last decade, Chinese manufacturing has also demonstrated its dark side causing wide range of concerns globally and directly jeopardize people’s health because of serious pollutions. How could the world keep its industrialization yet without damages to the natural environment? The paper proposes a new framework entitled ‘IE³’ by integrating three domains of knowledge—Industrial Entrepreneurship, Industrial Engineering and Industrial Ecology. The IE³ model provides a potential answer to the future development pathway for industrialization, changing from pursuit of quantity to quality via considering resources efficiency and ecology efficiency. The novelty of the research lies in incorporating three originally separated theories into a comprehensive system.

【 授权许可】

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